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		<title>Native language shapes the melody of a newborn baby&#8217;s cry</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/11/12/native-language-shapes-the-melody-of-a-newborn-babys-cry/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Telling the difference between a German and French speaker isn&#8217;t difficult. But you may be more surprised to know that you could have a good stab at distinguishing between German and French babies based on their cries. The bawls of &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/11/12/native-language-shapes-the-melody-of-a-newborn-babys-cry/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Bone find suggests humans on Treasure Coast 13,000 years ago</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/06/08/bone-find-suggests-humans-on-treasure-coast-13000-years-ago/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Jun 2009 01:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[VERO BEACH &#8211; Treasure Coast amateur fossil collector James Kennedy appears to have made an unprecedented archaeological discovery that might help confirm a human presence here up to 13,000 years ago. A 15-inch-long prehistoric bone fragment found near Vero Beach &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2009/06/08/bone-find-suggests-humans-on-treasure-coast-13000-years-ago/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Human culture subject to natural selection, Stanford study shows</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/19/human-culture-subject-to-natural-selection-stanford-study-shows/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Feb 2008 16:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds. Scientists at Stanford University have shown for the first time that cultural traits affecting survival and reproduction evolve at a different &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/19/human-culture-subject-to-natural-selection-stanford-study-shows/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Cruising the Amazon</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/08/cruising-the-amazon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 23:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is everywhere in the upper Amazon wilderness. Life that creeps, life that crawls, life that slithers, sprouts, burrows, scurries and slinks—and dies. The dank odors of alternating rot and genesis rise from the mulching forest floor. My Deet-fortified insect &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/08/cruising-the-amazon/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Our diets made us different from apes</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/03/our-diets-made-us-different-from-apes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:04:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans and Apes may share common ancestors and have 99 per cent of identical genes, but our diet has made us what we are today. Dietary patterns of human beings have played a key role in their evolution, researchers at &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/02/03/our-diets-made-us-different-from-apes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientists find cultural differences among chimpanzee colonies</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/07/scientists-find-cultural-differences-among-chimpanzee-colonies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 21:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Socially-learned cultural behaviour thought to be unique to humans is also found among chimpanzees colonies, scientists at the University of Liverpool have found. Historically, scientists believed that behavioural differences between colonies of chimpanzees were due to variations in genetics. A &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2008/01/07/scientists-find-cultural-differences-among-chimpanzee-colonies/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>David Mayberry-Lewis (1929-2007)</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/12/03/david-mayberry-lewis-1929-2007/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 00:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billycuts</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just got this in my mailbox&#8230; Dear Colleagues, It is with great sadness that I must report the death of David Maybury-Lewis on December 2, 2008. David Maybury-Lewis was the Edward C. Henderson Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. David was &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/12/03/david-mayberry-lewis-1929-2007/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mursi Tribeswoman With AK47 and iPod</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/23/mursi-tribeswoman-with-ak47-and-ipod/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2007 17:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great photo by Cory Doctorow entitled &#8220;Female member of Mursi tribe in Southern Ethiopia&#8221; via boingboing]]></description>
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		<title>Egalitarian Experiment Shows We&#8217;re a Bunch of Robin Hoods</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/egalitarian-experiment-shows-were-a-bunch-of-robin-hoods/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 20:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People taking part in a game designed to explore egalitarian impulses in human nature consistently robbed the rich players and gave money to the poor, scientists say. Associate Professor James Fowler, from the University of California at San Diego, and &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/egalitarian-experiment-shows-were-a-bunch-of-robin-hoods/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Dark Legacy of Carlos Castaneda</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/the-dark-legacy-of-carlos-castaneda/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Apr 2007 17:46:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For fans of the literary con, it&#8217;s been a great few years. Currently, we have Richard Gere starring as Clifford Irving in &#8220;The Hoax,&#8221; a film about the &#8216;70s novelist who penned a faux autobiography of Howard Hughes. We&#8217;ve had &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/16/the-dark-legacy-of-carlos-castaneda/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Apr 2007 16:58:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[CHAOS: THE BROADSHEETS OF ONTOLOGICAL ANARCHISM (Dedicated to Ustad Mahmud Ali Abd al-Khabir) Chaos CHAOS NEVER DIED. Primordial uncarved block, sole worshipful monster, inert &#38; spontaneous, more ultraviolet than any mythology (like the shadows before Babylon), the original undifferentiated oneness-of-being &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/04/12/temporary-autonomous-zones-by-hakim-bey/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Scientist Finds the Beginnings of Morality in Primate Behavior</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/20/scientist-finds-the-beginnings-of-morality-in-primate-behavior/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Mar 2007 16:27:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<title>Landmark Ruling Celebrated as a Victory for Religious Freedom, Environmental Justice &amp; Cultural Survival</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/15/landmark-ruling-celebrated-as-a-victory-for-religious-freedom-environmental-justice-cultural-survival/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Mar 2007 15:54:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flagstaff, AZ&#8212;On Monday, March 12th the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling to protect a mountain held holy by more than 13 Native American Nations. The slopes of the San Francisco Peaks, located in Northern Arizona, have been &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/03/15/landmark-ruling-celebrated-as-a-victory-for-religious-freedom-environmental-justice-cultural-survival/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Endangered Languages Encode Plant and Animal Knowledge</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/endangered-languages-encode-plant-and-animal-knowledge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:32:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saving indigenous languages from extinction is the only way to preserve traditional knowledge about plants and animals that have yet to be discovered by Western scientists, says a linguist and cultural expert. More than half of the word&#8217;s 7000 languages &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/endangered-languages-encode-plant-and-animal-knowledge/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Chimpanzees &#8216;Hunt Using Spears&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/chimpanzees-hunt-using-spears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2007 16:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>DrQuickbeam</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chimpanzees in Senegal have been observed making and using wooden spears to hunt other primates, according to a study in the journal Current Biology. Researchers documented 22 cases of chimps fashioning tools to jab at smaller primates sheltering in cavities &#8230; <a href="http://www.nerdshit.com/2007/02/23/chimpanzees-hunt-using-spears/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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