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Harper’s Index: November 2010
Statistics chosen at random from the latest Harper’s Index, with corresponding mp3s. Date that the Tea Party Bookshop in Salem, Oregon, changed its name to Tigress Books: 8/24/10 Nils Lofgren – Bein’ Angry Chance
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Researchers suggested that homosexuality in men may be an evolutionary advantage if it is caused by a set of “feminizing” genes and if men who carry sub-critical numbers of those genes are rendered more
Read More »Harper’s Findings: 8/06/08
Scientists discovered that eating blueberries and having friends are good for the memory and that pregnancy and smoking are bad for it. Nautiluses can remember useful things, but only for a day, whereas cuttlefish,
Read More »Harper’s Findings: 7/02/08
A selection of “Findings” from the back page of Harper’s Magazine, June 2008. A genetic variation affecting two thirds of East Asian men might allow them to take performance-enhancing testosterone undetected, a study found.
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