Neanderthal Genes Influence Humans

A lifelike reconstruction of a Neanderthal man with long hair and a muscular build.

Back about 40,000 years ago the Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens coexisted for several thousand years in Eurasia.  Researchers have found that during the coexistence they were able to breed.  Humans that are not of African heritage do show Neanderthal DNA throughout their homo sapien genes.  A study shows that about 40% of Neanderthal genes are contained in modern human genes. […]

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Poem – Ballet Over The Border (By Donal Mahoney)

  Every summer they come, a ballet over the border, without papers, a mass migration of   ruby-throat hummers, beautiful birds that devour millions of flies in North America,   birds we welcome because we love their beauty and their ballet. We do everything to help them,   hanging and cleaning feeders of nectar to plump them up so they can feast on flies until October when   they have […]

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AIR TRAVEL

THE PROBLEM Flight delays, a large share of which are caused by weather, cost the U.S. economy $31 billion annually. Regulators have been slow to approve technology that could provide pilots access to weather data. THE INNOVATION Mobile technology can keep pilots abreast of the latest weather information and plan ways to avoid bad weather in advance, even if they’re […]

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Killer quake creates island

Baluchistan, Pakistan A massive earthquake in Pakistan’s province of Baluchistan killed hundreds of people and created a new island off the coast. The magnitude-7.7 tremor flattened entire mud-brick villages. Troops deployed to fight an insurgency of separatist Baluchis were on hand to help rescue people, but the affected area is so huge that it will take days to reach some […]

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