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A few articles

2010-09-22T16:38:11Z

Mixed-use neighborhoods may reduce some crimes

An article ambitiously titled "Evolution in Action" about how some skinks give live birth

What to do if you lose a body part. Not likely to come up, but better to read it now - are you really gonna go google if your fingers get chopped off?

An article on the bedbug conference

Hilariously, it notes that the bedbug control folks all religiously checked their rooms first thing. It'd be the worst kind of irony to come home from this event with a few little hitchhikers!

Interesting quote here: “People still have in their heads that bedbugs means someone’s dirty,” Mr. Linde said, “but I handle multimillion-dollar homes in Westchester and Connecticut, and believe me, no one’s dirty.”

"People" think bedbugs mean you're *dirty*, but *he* doesn't bring up dirt, he brings up wealth. Because people do think the two go together (or don't, rather).

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In Mezuzas, a Custom Inherited by Gentiles

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Thousands of Trees Killed by New York Tornadoes

This is right on the heels of a huge tree-killing storm only half a year ago. Two years before that we had the storm that took out half the (remaining) trees on our block and a spire off the church up the hill. They call these "freak storms" but how freakish can they be, really?

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A Perk of Our Evolution: Pleasure in Pain of Chilies

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Family Fight, Border Patrol Raid, Baby Deported

What's all this crap I keep hearing about "anchor babies"? For crying out loud, the girl's mother's family has been in the US four generations, but she still got swept away.

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Mormon-Owned Paper Stands With Immigrants

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Two articles

2010-05-07T16:39:38Z

One about how Neanderthals and Humans may have totally had hot, hot sex.

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And one about the AAP and female circumcision.

Apparently, the AAP is suggesting that instead of banning the procedure outright (and thus prompting families to send their girls back to Africa where the whole shebang can be done without any sort of sanitary equipment) that instead we allow a very minor version in a hospital.

I can actually see where they're coming from. They're saying that if people will do it anyway, better it be done safely. And I imagine they're thinking that by controlling this themselves they can make sure the most minor form of FGM is done instead of the most major.

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Two quick articles, and also, I have invite codes for DW

2010-03-06T19:35:11Z

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Scientists Strive to Map the Shape-Shifting Net

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Human Culture, an Evolutionary Force

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