Aped at Math! Monkeys as Dumb as College Kids

Now we’ve learned that monkeys do as well as we do at basic math!

Out in the Cold: The Science of Shivering

Researchers at the Oregon Health Sciences University (just a few miles from my house) have been studying the science of shivering.
“Shivering, which is actually heat production in skeletal muscles, requires quite a bit of energy and is usually the last strategy the body uses to maintain its internal temperature to survive in a severe cold [...]

Is Economics Responsible for the Existence of Humanity?

That’s the idea in a research paper by Jason Shogren, of the University of Wyoming, and his colleagues.
Neanderthal man has had a bad cultural rap over the years since the discovery of the first specimen in the Neander valley in Germany, in the mid-19th century. The “caveman” image of a stupid, grunting, hairy, thick-skulled parody [...]

It’s the Insurance Industry Stupid

From a press release by the Georgetown University School of Medicine:
“Our current health care system is not prepared for responding to a growing segment of our community that has fallen through the cracks, making too much money for Medicaid coverage but not enough to afford medical care on their own,” said Thomas O’Toole, M.D., associate [...]