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Origin of Language Pinpointed

April 17, 2009

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Scientists have long debated the evolution of language. Did it emerge along with the appearance of modern homo sapiens, 130,000-200,000 years ago? Or did it happen as late as 50,000 years ago, explaining the cultural ferment at that time?

Imaging reveals abnormalities in pathways connecting brain areas in those with writer's cramp

April 13, 2009

Abnormalities in the fibers connecting different brain areas may contribute to muscle disorders such as writer's cramp, according to a report in the April issue of Archives of Neurology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.

How do we support today's Einsteins?

April 1, 2009

Is today's academic and corporate culture stifling science's risk-takers and stopping disruptive, revolutionary science from coming to the fore?

Science Blogger and Children's Writer Seeking NW PA or Western NY School Visits in late April

February 24, 2009

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Are you looking for a different kind of visiting author for your school but have a limited budget? Do you live along the route from Pittsburgh PA to Rochester NY?

If so, have I got a deal for you!

Team creates virtual library of medieval manuscripts

February 11, 2009

Google "Edward the Confessor" and you'll get page after page of links to biographies of this 11th-century English king, to Westminster Abbey, which he founded and where he is buried, and to the Magna Carta, which was partly inspired by laws enacted during his 24-year reign.

A site to grow old and paranoid with

September 1, 2002

Writer extraordinaire Ken Layne has a new site going that will give you plenty to ponder, chuckle over and get nervous about. In other words, it's a heck of a lot of fun. Bookmark Weird Files today. (Of particular interest to those who have recently seen "Signs" will be this doozey of a crop circle.)



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