Prince Harry of Britain to Serve in Iraq - New York Times

Does anyone remember that WWI was set into motion by the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the Austria-Hungarian throne?

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" George Santayana

Prince Harry of Britain to Serve in Iraq - New York Times

Complexities of Sexual Selection -- Avoiding Incest

Another example of how environmental factors affect brain chemistry which affects sexual selection preferences.

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Evolving a Mechanism to Avoid Sex with Siblings -- Evolutionary psychologists claim humans evolved a detector for avoiding sex with close kin: "Whether subjects directly saw siblings as newborns or simply shared the growing-up process, they both behaved more altruistically toward these siblings and felt a stronger aversion to any sort of sexual contact with them. "

Brain Creates New Neurons...

Woohoo, no reason to avoid those drunken binges anymore!

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: New Cells from Old Brains -- Taking a cue from rats, researchers find new neurons developing in a brain region used to process scents

What It Takes to Make a Student - New York Times

Very thorough discussion of what we know about how to improve our educational system and level the playing field for all students.

What It Takes to Make a Student - New York Times

New Breed of Toys...

Fun!

If Leonardo Had Made Toys - New York Times

"Junk" DNA may not be junk...

Not sure if I posted this here before or not, but still an interesting read.

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Salvage prospect for 'junk' DNA

Environmental Factors Affect Sexual Selection...

Fewer males in the environment changes a female butterfly's sexual selection. Presumably this is a chemical/hormonal pathway that responds to environmental changes to change the lust/promiscuity that the female butterfly feels.

Science & Technology at Scientific American.com: Female Butterflies Get Frisky When Males Become Scarce -- Researchers demonstrate how a parasite that ravages male butterflies drives females to seek multiple partners: "females do not resign themselves to forced virginity. Instead they become promiscuous scavengers, taking advantage of a single male's high capacity for mating"