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Digital Globe has a collection of Hurricane Katrina images that shows an aerial view of the devastation.

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" Geneticists have finished reading one of the most important volumes in the library of life: the DNA of the chimpanzee. Decoding the sequence of our comrade in apehood may help to answer the age-old question of what makes us human. "The NYT covered the story today with In Chimpanzee DNA, Signs of Y Chromosome's Evolution.See the assembled Pan troglodytes (chimpanzee) genome at the Chimpanzee (

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Dr. Frans de Waal discusses his observations of chimps and bonobos and how they relate to human behavior in this interview:"I call the human species the most bipolar ape, meaning that we go beyond chimps in our violence, which is systematic and often results in thousands of dead, and we go beyond the bonobo in our empathy and love for others, so that human altruism is truly remarkable. However,

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On August 24, we met Tian Tian, the seven year old male panda, at the National Zoo during my Washington DC trip. Tian Tian (pronounced t-YEN t-YEN) seemed more interested in cooling off. I was lucky he came out so I could take this photo - Mei Xiang, (pronounced may-SHONG) and the panda cub were sleeping it off.The recently published The Lady and the Panda discusses the first panda that was

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Yesterday, I watched a DVD called Everest. You may remember Ed Viesturs as the team leader of the IMAX expedition that scaled Everest in 1996 - at the same time they had the misfortune of witnessing and assisting in the "Into Thin Air" disaster as it unfolded (told by Jon Krakauer in his own famous account). On May 12 2005, Ed Viesturs became the first American to have scaled all fourteen 8000-

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Here is the Jessica Pressler NYT story about Philadelphia as the "Sixth" borough that caused a controversy among Philly bloggers (posted here in case the link disappears):August 14, 2005Philadelphia Story: The Next BoroughBy JESSICA PRESSLERCorrection AppendedPHILADELPHIAWEARING a Paul Green School of Rock T-shirt, his bangs plastered to his forehead in the summer heat, Laris Kreslins pulled in

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Recently, University of Chicago Professor Jerry Coyne wrote one of the best essays on evolution and science education in America entitled The Faith that Dare Not Speak Its Name in the New Republic. (free registration required) The blog Societas had an excellent post about another essayist in a similar vein, H Allen Orr.On the heels of Intelligent Design comes a new theory presented by IDers in

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Welcome

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