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Help Reduce Global Warming - Eat Less Meat
http://GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/ 2008/ 09/ 06/ help-reduce-global-warming-ea…This one is going to make my animal rights friends (somewhat) happy): UN says eat less meat to curb global warming | Environment | The Observer via kwout It is common sense, of course. I have posted on this topic before. It is well known that producing meat involves a heavy carbon footprint.
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Our Oceans Are Dying and We're At Fault
http://www.treehugger.com/ files/ 2008/ 09/ our-oceans-are-dying-and-were-at-fau…Image source: Getty Images The Los Angeles Times report this morning on the state of the oceans sounds like something out of a horror movie - fishermen come in contact with a spongy weed, only to break out into a painful rash that won't go away and literally peels your skin off.
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As Cosmopolitan As I Claim to Be
http://GlobalSociology.edublogs.org/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ as-cosmopolitan-as-i-claim-to…I am NEVER, EVER going to the rainforest: BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Frog hunt: In search of the world’s rarest frogs via kwout Read the whole article though, it’s worth it. Authored by SocProf. Hosted by Edublogs.
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Unnatural Selection
http://www.thecivicplatform.com/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ unnatural-selection/Stalin hated genetics — and chromosomes in particular, not least because the idea of genes as physical structures passed down through the generations suggested that nature wasn’t changeable.
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Ethnic nationalism, evolutionary psychology and Genetic Similarity [J. Philippe Rushton]
http://www.thecivicplatform.com/ 2008/ 09/ 05/ ethnic-nationalism-evolutionary-p…ABSTRACT. Genetic Similarity Theory extends Anthony D. Smith’s theory of ethno-symbolism by anchoring ethnic nepotism in the evolutionary psychology of altruism. Altruism toward kin and similar others evolved in order to help replicate shared genes. Since ethnic groups are repositories of shared genes, xenophobia is the ‘dark side’ of human altruism.
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Cameroon and Nigeria to protect world's rarest gorilla
http://news.mongabay.com/ 2008/ 0905-wcs_gorilla.htmlCameroon and Nigeria have agreed to protect the the Cross River gorilla, world's most endangered gorilla, reports the Wildlife Conservation Society, which helped broker the deal.
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Moose Mission in New York's Adirondacks
http://news.mongabay.com/ 2008/ 0905-maher_wcs_moose.htmlBushwhacking our way through nearly impenetrable bogs and blow down in the central woods of the Adirondacks in northern New York, I am wondering…how can a MOOSE move through this stuff? Weighing nearly 1400 pounds and standing six to seven feet tall, moose favor the dense mixed forests that surround
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The Tom Sawyer approach to saving the world
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/ blog/ 2008/ 09/ the-tom-sawyer.htmlTo change people's values, so the shrinks say, you change their behavior. You don't barrage them with ideas and cause information overload. You don't tell them their existing values are wrong and get their backs up. What you do is you get them to change their behavior and, once you've done that, you let their ideas and values change all by themselves.
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Photo: commonly-kept gecko was thought to be extinct in the wild
http://news.mongabay.com/ 2008/ 0904-kihansi_spray_toad.htmlThe Crested Gecko is endemic to South Province, New Caledonia in the South Pacific. While the species is widely kept in the pet trade, the species was long believed extinct in the wild until it was rediscovered in 1994. It is now known to have three distinct populations and its conservation status is currently being evaluated by the IUCN.
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Intelligence and the Wealth and Poverty of Nations
http://www.thecivicplatform.com/ 2008/ 09/ 04/ intelligence-and-the-wealth-and-p…by Richard Lynn, University of Ulster, Coleraine, Northern Ireland and Tatu Vanhanen, University of Helsinki, Finland Summary : National IQs assessed by the Progressive Matrices were calculated for 60 nations and examined in relation to per capita incomes in the late 1990s and to post World War Two rates of economic growth.
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