TOP 100 CAMPING SITES
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| Summer Break? I’m Working on It A tight job market is posing a challenge for affluent teenagers as families that might once have readily paid for summer camps reconsider their options. nytimes.com |
Popularity is In Your Genes We take it for granted that certain aspects of our social behavior--whether we chat easily with strangers at a party, for instance, or prefer to be a wallflower--are influenced by genetics. But now researchers at the University of California, San Diego, and Harvard University have shown that genes have a much broader sway, affecting the kinds of social networks people form and the positions they occupy in them.James Fowler, a political scientist at U.C.S.D., and his colleagues studied the social networks of 1,110 adolescent fraternal and identical twins. They found that three aspects of the twins’ social networks appeared to be shaped by genetics. How many times each teen was named by others as a friend and how likely each youth’s friends were to know one another were both approximately 50 percent related to genetic factors. Whether a teen was located at the center of a network or toward the edge was about 30 percent genetic. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Origins: The Start of Everything Where do rainbows come from, Daddy?What about flying cars--and LSD? [More] rss.sciam.com |
Sunbathers on Display Privacy in a public park; reaping garden left-behinds. nytimes.com |
Giant Carp, 100 pounds, Could Devastate Great Lakes Michigan has taken its fight against invasive Asian carp to the U.S. Supreme Court, suing Illinois to force the closure of Chicago-area waterways that provide the fish a pathway to the Great Lakes.Experts fear that the invasive carp, which have been traveling up the Mississippi and Illinois rivers for decades, will devastate the $7 billion Great Lakes fisheries. The 100-pound fish have voracious appetites and rapid reproduction rates that could ravage native lake species. [More] rss.sciam.com |