While philosophers and poets muse on the meaning of life, natural selection casts a dispassionate eye on the whole affair. From the viewpoint of evolution, there is only one thing that matters - that we survive long enough to pass our genes on to the next generation, as many times as possible. And from the viewpoint of evolution, we are not doing a very good job. Birth rates in several countries around the world - the UK, Japan, China - are falling dramatically. Women are having fewer chilhttp://scienceblogs.com/notrocketscience/2...

Recently I went to an upscale Hollywood eatery with some friends where I was introduced to a young woman from Arizona who will be voting for the first time in November. After some polite small-talk, the conversation turned to politics and when I asked her who she was voting for, she proudly told me John McCain. When I asked her if she shared McCain's views on a no-timetable war, she said, "No". So, I asked her if she shared McCain's views on abortion and she said, "No". Growing more confused Ihttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/brad-mirman/...

Mobile Home Foreclosure Leaves Banks On The Lot October 11th, 2008 by Jack Humphrey Most lenders treated mobile homes much the same as vehicle sales and most did not qualify for traditional mortgages when they were first being sold. After all, a buyer who could not make their payments could hook them up to a truck and drive them away to avoid mobile home foreclosure. However, as more people [...] Posted in Finance | No Comments » Site Search Tags: No Tags Related Tags: No Tagshttp://www.financecreditpro.com/finance/mo...

The time allotted for the sometimes rowdy pregame partying at Giants Stadium has been whittled down to five hours, from seven.http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/searc...

The structure of DNA was first publicly described 55 years ago at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) on Long Island in New York by James Watson. Last night, the now 80-year-old Watson opened up the 2008 Personal Genomes meeting at CSHL by telling the story of the origins of the Human Genome Project, which he headed from 1990 to 1992. In 2003 the Human Genome Project produced a (nearly) complete reference DNA sequence of a human genome that is now essential to basic and applied human genetichttp://spittoon.23andme.com/2008/10/11/fuh...