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Three articles this month and all of them have something to do with biology. The first one is about how some chimpanzees in Africa have learned to recognize and disable traps laid by humans. The second is a statistical analysis of divorce rates sorted according to occupation. The last one is less of a formal [...]

Four articles this month and it’s a pretty mixed bag. The most controversial article of the bunch is one that links autism with wealth, but the one drawing a link between human intelligence and disease rates in different countries comes a close second. Then, there’s the highly speculative paper that offers a new model of [...]

I’m not sure why Marginal Revolution only just now linked to a Guardian article from 2003, but it’s still a seriously good read. The dolphin in the article was trained to help keep her pool clean by bringing any waste paper that falls into her pool to the keepers for a reward. Over time, one [...]

It’s official because a report from the Ohio State University has concluded from a study of 219 US graduates and undergraduates that students who use Facebook had a significantly lower grade point average than those who did not. FACEBOOK users may feel socially successful in cyberspace but they are more likely to perform poorly in [...]