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[conuly]

Cat tongues are even 'handier' than you imagined

In some ways, hawks hunt like humans

Archaeological excavation unearths evidence of turkey domestication 1,500 years ago

DNA evidence from 5,310-year-old corn cob fills gaps in history

Diaphragm much older than expected

An echidna’s to-do list: Sleep. Eat. Dig up Australia.

Reliance on reason, evidence as a moral issue measured in study

Innovative technique to curtail illegal copying of digital media

What marine midges can tell us about clocks and calendars

Record-breaking faint satellite galaxy of the Milky Way discovered

Young children are terrible at hiding – psychologists have a new theory why

Reconditioning the brain to overcome fear

New tool to track circulating cancer cells

Engineering a more efficient system for harnessing carbon dioxide

Gut bacteria affect our metabolism

Genetic breakthrough: Crops use more sunlight to grow

Women who suppress their emotions are as good at mental rotation as men

Economist's research reveals poverty should be measured by more than income

As life expectancy grows, men still lagging

Ocean acidification study offers warnings for marine life, habitats

The North Pole is 36 degrees hotter than it should be right now

Comments

[dandelion.livejournal.com]

That poverty article - "New research...shows there are multiple components of poverty that more accurately describes a household's economic condition. Dhongde looks at "deprivation" more than simply low income, and her work finds that almost 15 percent of Americans are deprived in multiple dimensions."

So basically an index of multiple deprivation (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_deprivation_index)? I hope that if I were to read the actual journal article that the researcher would already be aware of what the UK had done on that front, because the news article really reads like only developing countries have considered this sort of thing. Rather than reinvent the wheel, I'd hope people would just take, say, British work and adapt it for the factors unique to America, and then spend the time they've saved to take the results of the work further.

[conuly]

This is one of those times where Wikipedia is not nearly informative enough.