The Evolution of the God Gene

By NICHOLAS WADEIn the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion.During 15 years of excavation they have uncovered not some monumental temple but evidence of a critical transition in religious behavior. The record begins with a simple dancing floor, the arena for the communal religious dances held by

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Is There a Method in Cellphone Madness?

By SAUL HANSELL, The New York TimesHere's a consolation prize to the millions who recoil in bafflement from cellphone companies’ labyrinthine price plans, with their ever more intricate arrays of minutes, messages and megabytes: Economists don’t understand them, either.“The whole pricing thing is weird,” said Barry Nalebuff, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management. “You pay $60 to

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E-Book Readers or Phone Books?

This is an article that caught my eye. It's from the NYT, so, it must be good. And it is. I tend to agree that one-sided devices like e-readers are doomed from the beginning, they are big, have one function and cost too much. The future lies in apps for mobile devices, since the new smartphones are getting more and more versatile (they can shoot HD, surf the web with full browsing capabilities

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Is Doomsday Coming? Perhaps, but Not in 2012

By DENNIS OVERBYE (The New York Times)

NASA said last week that the world was not ending — at least anytime soon. Last year, CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, said the same thing, which I guess is good news for those of us who are habitually jittery. How often do you have a pair of such blue-ribbon scientific establishments assuring us that everything is fine?



On the other

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