Posts Tagged ‘Monkeys’

It’s Not in Our Genes: Monkeys and Humans Differ by What’s Missing

Scientists learn our DNA is defined by both its structure and its recipe.


Some Fun Things To Do On Halloween

What: Monster Bash on the USS Hornet Museum Where: Alameda, CA Description: The ship’s annual Halloween party takes place onboard the historic aircraft carrier with costume contests, dancing, and haunted happenings. The family event features 60s, 70s, and 80s dance music by The Cocktail Monkeys. When: October 31 from 8 pm to 12 pmWhat: Happy Hauntings: A Kingdom for Kids! at the Dutch Wonderland Family Entertainment Complex Where: Lancaster, PA Description: Dutch Wonderland hosts non-scary Ha


Blogs That Support Breast Cancer Awareness Month

Since I'm devoting this month to Breast Cancer Awareness, I thought I would list some other great bloggers that are also supporting the cause!  Please make time to visit their sites and see what they have to offer: Together We Save Crazy Coupon Lady Easternshore Mom Ladybug Mama of 2 My Dallas Mommy Fat Fighter TV  (giveaway!) Plot Monkeys Tech Savvy Mama Blueprint for Style Mama Says Studio Marcy Home Office Moms Freebie Friends Scraps and


All God’s Creatures—Including Mormos, the Other Mormons

Fraternity with monkeys was (and remains) a standard trope of racializing discourse. So, in my ongoing efforts to (a) understand late nineteenth-century Mormon identity construction and (b) graduate, I poked around for comparisons between Mormons and animals in the 19 th century. I was pretty excited when I found a baboon labeled “mormon.” I thought that, together with Mormon crickets, I had a high-protein entrée for my thesis. I mean, if I were manufacturing monstrosities for 19 th -century a


Links 7/9/09

As you can see, the want of my own posts tonight is not due to a failure to look for material! Dolphin 'superpod' spotted off Wales BBC Monkeys show language recognition Science News Examiner Prince Charles: next generation faces 'living hell' unless climate change tackled Telegraph White House Ponders Bernanke's Future Wall Street Journal. Looking at the alternatives, we are probably better off with the devil we know. Summers? Dear God. Roger Ferguson? I know him from McKinsey, and


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