Feedback: Cancer risk doubled or halved
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-4 0:06)
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How picking the wrong newspaper can seriously impair your health, a novel cure for head lice, and how to read last year's news in the stars (full text available to subscribers)
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How to get all the fun of the careers fair
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 23:45)
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The summer is almost here and for some, that means attending careers fairs. How can a job-hunting graduate get the most out of their day?
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Learning to love experimental sci-art film
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 23:25)
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Screenings of audiovisual art-science films can be thought-provoking, but to enjoy them it's best to relax
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New MRSA superbug discovered in cows' milk
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 22:52)
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A new strain of antibiotic-resistant MRSA found in cows' milk and humans will not be picked up by some screening tests
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German E. coli outbreak is a killer hybrid
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 20:58)
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The bacterium that has killed 18 people in Europe is a previously unknown strain
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Hacker group steals details of a million Sony users
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 20:20)
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A hacker group known as Lulz Security, or LulzSec, claiming to have stolen details about a million users from SonyPictures.com
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Thoughts within thoughts make us human
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 20:07)
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In his new book, The Recursive Mind, Michael Corballis tackles a unique trait of the human mind– the way we embed ideas within ideas
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Wave 'invisibility cloak' could shield coastlines
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 19:50)
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A wave energy system uses scaled-up semiconductor and metamaterial physics to shield coastlines from destructive seas (full text available to subscribers)
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A year in the life of a Marsonaut
from New Scientist - Online News
(2011-6-3 19:38)
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It's exactly one year since the six members of the Mars-500 experiment entered their mock spaceship, but the hardest part of the journey has yet to come
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書評『人類の足跡10万年全史』
from 森山和道
(2011-6-3 14:26)
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Tweet 産経新聞 2007年掲載
『 人類の足跡10万年全史 』
(スティーヴン・オッペンハイマー(Stephen Oppenheimer) 著 仲村明子 訳 発行:草思社 2400円(+税) ISBN:978-4-7942-1625-0 原題:OUT OF EDEN : The Peopling of the World, 2004)
ヨーロッパ人の遺伝的ルーツはインド付近、南アジアにある。モンゴロイドの起源は東南アジアだ。
現生人類はアフリカで生まれた。細胞の中のミトコンドリアDNA、Y染色体、そのほか遺伝子を使った研究の結果、いま地球上にいる人類は、アフリカから出た、ただ一つの集団の生き残りである可能性が高いという。世界中の人々は、みな祖先を共有していることになる。
野を越え山を越え、大河を遡り海岸線を辿りつつ、祖先たちは各地へ広がっていった。多くの人々は安住の地を見つけると留まった。だが移動せざるをえなくなった人々もいた。地球環境は人類の活動に寄らず変動するからだ。たびたび起こる全地球的な気候変動や巨大な火山噴火に人類は大きく運命を左右された。
『 人類の足跡10万年全史 』 は人類の移動の歴史の本だ。世界各地に人類はどのように広がったのか。ここには化石、遺 ...
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