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NATURAL SELECTIONS

JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 27, 2004
Picking the brains of teenagers shows how we 'mature'
What an age we live in. Science is progressing in ever greater leaps and bounds. The way things are going, we might one day even understand that most enigmatic and mysterious of natural phenomena, the teenager.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 13, 2004
Barbie has the perfect body, biologically speaking
A woman with large breasts and a small waist. It's what all men want, isn't it? Western men are often cited as -- or accused of -- being obsessed with the large breasts/small waist ideal. It objectifies women, some women say.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 22, 2004
The secret of the 'superhero' spider leads advances in field of biomimetics
Three thousand years ago a bunch of Chinese silkworm farmers got fed up with their job. Instead of carrying out the tedious task of harvesting hundreds of silkworm cocoons for their silk, the farmers wondered if there wasn't an easier way they could make the stuff artificially. There was, but the techniques...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 8, 2004
What's love gotta do with it?
This column is often concerned with the evolution of sexual behavior and sexual anatomy, but instead of attributing everything to sex, for once let's accept a view like that of Bertrand Russell.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 25, 2004
Male-killers on the loose
Things are never what they seem. Men certainly aren't, according to the American writer Marilyn French: "Whatever they may be in public life, whatever their relations with men, in their relations with women, all men are rapists, and that's all they are."
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 11, 2004
Liposuction fat turned into stem cells
In "Fight Club," Brad Pitt's character turns human fat into soap and with beautifully sick panache sells it back to the same rich women who'd paid to have it removed by liposuction. Now scientists at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C., have shown greater ingenuity and made something rather...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 26, 2004
Sex (selection) and the City
It's colloquially well known that women can feel competition from other women, as this scene from "Sex and the City" shows:
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Feb 12, 2004
To run, or not to run, the race issue
Last year, when Californians had to choose between Hollywood star Arnold Schwarzenegger and incumbent Democrat Gray Davis to be their governor, they also had to vote on another divisive issue: Proposition 54. This law, the so-called Racial Privacy Initiative, sought to ban the state collection of information...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 22, 2004
Out of thought, out of mind
Sigmund Freud was well aware that his theories were controversial. "What progress we are making," he commented in 1933. "In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 8, 2004
Shedding light on dark matter
These days, you never hear people complaining that science destroys the wonder of the world. They wouldn't dare. For a beautiful example, look at what was discovered last year. A satellite -- the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) -- confirmed one of the strangest, most wondrous proposals about...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 25, 2003
It's Christmas, so meet the family
Dec. 25 is one day when many people make an effort to be with their families, and some might even take time to remember those less fortunate than themselves. So in that spirit, in this week's column we're going to think about our closest relatives, ones who are far less fortunate than us and who face...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 11, 2003
Lice of a feather grow together
Look at the history of modern global infections and you'll see a worrying pattern. For example, evidence of SARS, which killed 916 people worldwide this year, was discovered in civets and raccoon dogs sold live at Chinese food markets. Yuen Kwok-yung, head of microbiology at the University of Hong Kong,...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 27, 2003
Sex matters -- for worms, at least
It is perhaps rare for readers of British tabloid newspapers to ponder the same questions as evolutionary biologists, but that may have been the case last week. The tabloids enjoyed themselves at the expense of women suffering from a rare and often debilitating condition: persistent sexual arousal syndrome....
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 13, 2003
A black hole on our doorstep
The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the most inhospitable places on Earth. It's 2,600 meters above sea level and receives almost no rainfall. Visitors, when they are not tending to dry skin and nosebleeds caused by the altitude, often compare the terrain to the barren red rocks that cover...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 23, 2003
No rush to judgment
In a meeting in Heidelberg earlier this month, science historians concluded that German science between 1933 and 1945 was exploitative and unethical. The organizer of the meeting, Wolfgang Eckhart, head of history of medicine at the University of Heidelberg, said in Nature last week: "We have proven...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 9, 2003
Behavior, genes in bed together
The job of undertaker is not one that is restricted to human society. In honeybee colonies, too, some individuals have the task of removing the cadavers of their dead fellows.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 25, 2003
Peeved monkeys reject unequal pay on the job
Philosophers as diverse as Plato, Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill tried hard to argue that there is a rational basis for fair and just behavior. However, the best philosophy in the world is only worth so much when there is the chance to make bucket-loads of cash.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 11, 2003
Putting bacteria to work in the body
Margaret Atwood's latest novel, "Oryx and Crake," is set in a future where multinational power has created a dystopia of genetically engineered organisms living in a globally warmed world.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 28, 2003
Aging can be a laugh
A teenager is being interviewed for a part-time job.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 7, 2003
Taking your mate for a ride
Now here's a heartwarming tale for all readers. It involves a partner who provides free transport, free food and, as a nice bonus, unlimited sex. Our story is about an insect, but it starts thousands of years ago.
Who needs AI when you have Hatsune Miku?
Over the first six months of 2024, a handful of songs using Vocaloid singer Hatsune Miku’s voice have enjoyed widespread attention, underlining a global interest in the character and the technology she represents.
Bloodied Trump survives assassination attempt at political rally
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is surrounded and evacuated by Secret Service agents at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday. Trump was rushed off stage at the rally after shots rang out.
Shooter came within inches of killing Trump, but left few clues as to why
An aerial view shows the stage where Republican presidential candidate and former U.S. President Donald Trump had been standing during an assassination attempt the day before, and the roof of a nearby building where a gunman was shot dead by law enforcement, in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Sunday.
Yen’s woes seem too big for even a BOJ hike this month to solve
The Bank of Japan headquarters in Tokyo
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
How to beat Japan’s summer heat in ways better for the planet
Tenugui towels hang up to dry at a dyeing company in Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, on May 8. The durable and versatile tenugui, which many people have in their homes, can be used in many ways to cool one’s body.
After Trump shooting, U.S. presidential race might take a violent turn
United States Secret Service Counter Snipers stand guard on a rooftop during a campaign rally for U.S. President Donald Trump in Avoca, Pennsylvania, in 2020.
No AC this summer? No problem (for me).
Think air conditioning is a requirement for a Tokyo summer? Think again.
She’s paying ¥1 million to help behind the scenes at the Paris Olympics
Mai Tarumi, who previously volunteered at the postponed Tokyo Olympics in 2021, has a travel budget of ¥1 million for her trip to volunteer at the Paris Games.
How to tweak your diet when temperatures spike
Most people think of hydration as a strictly liquid-based concept, but eating foods with high water content is an essential part of making it through a Japanese summer unscathed.

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