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Friday, July 8, 2005

Researchers unearth 11,000-year-old bones. Remnants of early humans in the Great Plains were successfully located at a dig in northwestern Kansas by a group of researchers from the Kansas Geological Survey. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Creationist reversal in Tulsa. July 8, 2005: On July 7, 2005, the Tulsa, Oklahoma, Park Board voted 3-1 to reverse its June 7 decision to add a display depicting the Biblical account of creation at the Tulsa Zoo. Supporters of the display argued that the zoo already contains religious items, including a statue of the elephant-headed Hindu deity Ganesha outside the elephant enclosure and a glo ... [National Center for Science Education]
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Scientists Hesitant to Debate Intelligent Design. Over the years the scientific community has largely decided not to take part in public debates over creationism v. evolution. Now they're being careful about how they take on Darwin's latest critics -- advocates of "Intelligent Design," the argument that life is too complex to have evolved without help. [NPR Topics: Health & Science]
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The Smash of Civilizations. In the months before he ordered the invasion of Iraq, George Bush and his senior officials spoke of preserving Iraq's "patrimony" for the Iraqi people. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Archaeologists unearth remnants of Indian village in Judith's Fancy. ST. CROIX - To the untrained eye, the shallow hole a few hundred meters in from the shore in the National Park Service's 73 acres of land in Judith's Fancy is just that - a hole. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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House of the medieval dead lurks in lawyers' basement. A rare medieval charnel house which lay undiscovered for 300 years has been restored to its former glory, English Heritage said yesterday. [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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Vandals damage Squaxin Island dig site (Reg Req'd). Vandals damaged a shell midden, or garbage dump, at the site of a centuries-old Squaxin Island tribal fishing village over the July Fourth weekend, disrupting student archaeologists' work there and violating a ... [Archaeology - Topix.net]
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African grey parrot is first bird to comprehend numerical concept akin to zero. A Brandeis University researcher has shown that an African grey parrot with a walnut-sized brain understands a numerical concept akin to zero [base ']Äì an abstract notion that humans don't typically understand until age three or four, and that can significantly challenge learning-disabled children [Biology News Net]
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Deep-sea jelly uses glowing red lures to catch fish. This photograph shows the newly discovered siphonophore's tentilla[base ']Äîtiny filaments that branch off the main tentacles. Each tentilla contains thousands of stinging cells. The red lures are on separate stalks, which move up and down, causing the lures to wiggle like swimming copepods (a typical food of small midwater fishes). [Biology News Net]
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