How an international team of chimpanzee experts conducted the most comprehensive survey of the animals ever attempted. Scientists have been investigating chimpanzee culture for several decades, but too often their studies contained a crucial flaw. Most attempts to document cultural diversity among chimpanze...
The origins of the Etruscans are not well known, but it is believed that they began around 800 BC and were, prior to Rome, the major power in the region. The Etruscan civilization lasted until 396 BC, when they were conquered by Rome. So, they lasted for roughly 400 years. 43. Roman...
This chapter covers emerging zoonotic diseases, with a focus on the current understanding of how and where zoonotic pathogens circulate, their pathways to emergence, potential for sustained human-to-human transmission, and gaps in our knowledge. The first cluster of infections among people may be re...
Although Mayans have long been inhabiting Sian Ka’an, it’s only in the past few decades that travelers have been beginning to dip their toes into Sian Ka’an as a designated biosphere reserve. As development began to encroach around the region, a nature reserve was created in 1982. A fe...
Gold had brief periods of huge gains in recent decades, but there were also long stretches when it was outperformed by U.S. stocks. For example, anyone who invested in gold in 2011, instead of putting money in stocks, would have gotten crushed over most of the following 10 years as U....
We know a lot more nowadays about animal suffering than the Stoics did two millennia ago. Moreover, we have developed truly horrific standardized practices for the treatment of animals in quantities that the Stoics could not have imagined. Just to give you an idea, these are the USDA ...
presented in this article are applicable to all four IBS types. In other words, lifestyle and dietary factors are at the root cause at all four types and so the cure is the same. Looking back at the mixed symptoms I suffered from for three decades, I suppose I was in the IBS-mixed ...
It forecast thousands of deaths and billions of dollars of damage in the city of Los Angeles, which makes it crucial to investigate the most important question - when will the next big earthquake hit the San Andreas Fault? The latest preparations for disaster are theclimaxof an investigation th...
When faced with a spewing volcano, people today share many of the same feelings volcano-observers have had throughout human history: We are in awe of the destructive power of nature, and we are unsettled by the thought that a peaceful mountain can suddenly become an unstoppable destructive ...
however I am now being told I only own 1/3 the mineral rights to the property. Apparently in the 1930’s when the ” Jones ” family sold the property, they retained 2/3 mineral rights. When looking at my deed, sure enough down through the decades that stipulation is left on all tra...