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Rhine River - Now With 5 Million More Years!

Rhine River - Now With 5 Million More Years!

May 16 2012 | comment(s)

Based on new fossil evidence, the age of the Rhine river is five million years older than previously believed.

The famous Rhine of song and legend flows through Switzerland, Austria, Germany and the Netherlands on its way to the North Sea. The catchment area of the Rhine, around 1,200 kilometers of it, draws from Luxembourg, Belgium, France, Lichtenstein and Italy. As widely known as the river is, its original age has remained a science puzzle.
Meat And Masculinity: Vegetarians Have An Uphill Perception Battle

Meat And Masculinity: Vegetarians Have An Uphill Perception Battle

May 16 2012 | comment(s)

Men are generally more reluctant to try vegetarian products and a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research says that is influenced by a strong association of meat with masculinity.
 
"We examined whether people in Western cultures have a metaphoric link between meat and men" write the authors.  And they concluded there was a strong cultural connection to meat - especially muscle meat, like steak. 

Evolutionary psychologists would likely disagree, as do unbiased dietary scientists.
False Positives: Genes Have No Meaningful Relationship To Economic Decisions And Political Attitudes

False Positives: Genes Have No Meaningful Relationship To Economic Decisions And Political Attitudes

May 16 2012 | comment(s)

Around election season, in whatever country you are in (assuming you have elections) you can tell True Believers in their earnest politics truly wish the other side could be labeled as having defective brains and genetics and therefore be cured - or at least sterilized. 
Hatchery Salmon Versus Wild Salmon

Hatchery Salmon Versus Wild Salmon

May 16 2012 | comment(s)

A group of studies says that salmon raised in man-made hatcheries can harm wild salmon through competition for food and habitat. Salmon, which survived millions of years of evolution, are in danger from...salmon.

The studies provide new evidence that fast-growing hatchery fish compete with wild fish for food and habitat in the ocean as well as in the rivers where they return to spawn and even raises questions about whether the ocean can supply enough food to support future increases in hatchery fish while still sustaining wild salmon. 
Easterlin Paradox: Chinese Discover Money Does Not Buy Happiness

Easterlin Paradox: Chinese Discover Money Does Not Buy Happiness

May 15 2012 | comment(s)

Things would seem to be good in China.  They are the only world economy not in a financial demilitarized zone, things are booming.  

Yet more money is not making people there happier. They're actually less happy today than shortly after the Tiananmen Square protest in Beijing was crushed by the military, says economist Richard Easterlin, researcher in "happiness economics" and namesake of the Easterlin Paradox.
A New Way To Fire Up The Body's Immune Cells And Fight Tumors

A New Way To Fire Up The Body's Immune Cells And Fight Tumors

May 15 2012 | comment(s)

Researchers  have uncovered a new way to stimulate activity of immune cell opiate receptors, leading to efficient tumor cell clearance - their pharmacological approach can activate the immune cells to prevent cancer growth through stimulation of the opiate receptors found on immune cells.