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NATURAL SELECTIONS

JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 8, 2006
Rationality again on rack of 'faith'
How can certain events that took place in 17th-century Italy have much relevance to those of the 21st? I'm thinking of the way one of the greatest men in history, the father of physics, Galileo Galilei (1564-1642), was treated by the Roman Catholic Church.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 11, 2006
Bizarre rodents confound a venerable theory of aging
We've all heard the claims. Drink enough green tea and you'll live to be 100. Eat tofu every day to protect against cancer. Recently, there's even been research suggesting that eating curry helps to boost brain power.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 13, 2006
Own goal clouds progress
Tomorrow sees the start of a three-day meeting in the Eternal City that concerns one of the most promising and controversial scientific research areas of our time: stem cells. Embryonic stem cells have the ability to transform into any cell and tissue type in the body, and thus have the potential to...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 30, 2006
Gene finds help to 'unroll' humanity
The English word "evolve" comes from a Latin word, used years before the familiar Darwinian connotation took over, meaning "unroll." As individuals, we don't evolve -- it's genes that evolve -- but as our lives unroll, we can see and feel the influence of natural selection at every stage, from birth...
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 9, 2006
Eying wars in the deep
It was the night of Oct. 6, 1941, in the Straits of Gubal in the southern Red Sea. Like most of the crew of the hybrid steam-sail ship SS Thistlegorm, moored in the safe haven in Egyptian waters off the shallow reef, merchant seaman John McKai was sleeping on the deck. There was no air conditioning,...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 12, 2006
Guinea pigs hail 'mystical experience'
What was the most spiritually meaningful moment in your life?
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jun 14, 2006
Where are these life-saving drugs in Japan?
Wataru Tsurumi's book, "The Complete Manual of Suicide," was a best seller in Japan and it's easy to see why. He was writing for a market that is particularly interested in self-destruction.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 31, 2006
Philosopher reignites debate over contraception
When it was reported last month that Hollywood actor Tom Cruise intended to eat his wife's placenta raw, I thought it was one of the stranger stories going round at the time. Another, according to some newspapers, was that Cruise had bought his wife, actress Katie Holmes, an adult-sized pacifier to ensure...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
May 10, 2006
Reappraising the role of damaged DNA
Outside of comic books, when you are exposed to radiation, your DNA is damaged and you get ill. Sometimes very ill: just witness the terrible effects of the radiation released in the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 20 years ago.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Apr 12, 2006
Poor health may be no-laughing matter
Some people complain that Japanese people don't laugh enough, that Japanese society today is too strait-laced.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Mar 8, 2006
New signals abound of our genetic evolution
Good news this week for believers in common sense, opponents of intelligent design, and, incidentally, for writers of columns about natural selection.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jan 11, 2006
I.D. 'revolution' gets its comeuppance
The year 2005 was when, shockingly, "intelligent design" almost got on the syllabuses of American science classes. But then 11 rational parents in Pennsylvania took their school board to court, and, just before Christmas, the presiding judge delivered a crushing verdict.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Dec 14, 2005
Trade-off apparent in bats' 'costly tissues'
Here's a rhetorical question that isn't just an excuse to talk about something rude. Would you men out there rather have large gonads or large brains? For female readers, how about this: What do you think is most important in a male, testes size or brain size?
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 30, 2005
'Monster' gene defect may counter deadly affliction
Want to have huge muscles but are too lazy to go to the gym? There could soon be a way.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Nov 9, 2005
Study finds broccoli combats gastritis
As futurists get excited by the prospect of engineering ourselves to have longer lives, it's easy to forget that, as well as the high-tech ways, there are very simple ways to live longer.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Oct 12, 2005
Looking at both sides of the equation
Someone asked me the other day if I wouldn't like to be a woman, just to see what it was like. Sure, I'd love to try it, I said, for a day or two. Imagine seeing the world from the other side, seeing how men assess you and wielding power over them with a glance. Or if you're a woman, imagine being a...
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 28, 2005
Shrines are no salve when it comes to extinctions
Natural selection these days can be more than a little unnatural, especially in Japan, which has a curious relationship with nature.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Sep 8, 2005
Could chimp genome answer Plato's question?
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JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Aug 11, 2005
A-bomb gene 'shadow' may be fading
One of the strongest memories I have of a trip to Hiroshima that I made a few years ago is of the shadow on the steps of the Sumitomo Bank. Someone had been sitting on those steps, probably waiting for the bank to open, when at 8.15 a.m. on Aug. 6, 1945, a bomb went off.
JAPAN / Science & Health / NATURAL SELECTIONS
Jul 14, 2005
No need to blush if you become red-faced after a few
Whatever your job and background, drunken conversations between work colleagues have much in common. However, a phrase that I often heard in Japan but have heard nowhere else is, "I have an inactive form of aldehyde dehydrogenase."
Japan to revise consumption tax exemption for overseas tourists
Tourists walk through Nakamise shopping street near Sensoji Temple in Tokyo in April
Japan's tourism industry hit by cancellations after megaquake alert
A beach closed due to a megaquake alert in Hiratsuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, from Friday to Thursday.
Focus shifts to incoming typhoon as Tropical Storm Maria dissipates
Newly formed Tropical Storm Ampil, which is forecast to approach eastern Japan this weekend, is seen on the left side of this satellite image.
Kishida to step down in September in bid to show ‘LDP has changed’
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida speaks during a news conference Wednesday at the Prime Minister's Office in Tokyo.
Publisher finds surprise audience after translating history textbooks
Yamakawa Shuppansha president Takeshi Nozawa holds the publisher's textbook on Japanese history — used in high schools across Japan — alongside the new English version in Tokyo on May 23.
Economic security is about strengthening and sustaining growth, former minister says
Former economic security minister Takayuki Kobayashi says changes in the international balance of power, along with deepening economic interdependence, have led some countries to attempt to use their economic power to impose their will on others.
Ice bandanas, convenience store breaks: Running under Japan’s summer sun
Blistering heat is becoming a fixture of summer in Japan, but a few tweaks to your routine can make your outdoor runs bearable — if not enjoyable — until cooler temperatures return.
Japan issued its first-ever megaquake alert. What does that mean?
Naoshi Hirata (center), chairman of a committee tasked with evaluating the risk of a Nankai Trough earthquake, speaks at a news conference in Tokyo on Friday.
France brings down the curtain on its Olympic party with Tom Cruise and Leon Marchand
Fireworks are set off during the closing ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics at Stade de France in Saint-Denis on Sunday.
Japan fuels U.S. LNG boom even as climate targets and impacts loom
Flaring at the Cameron LNG export terminal in Hackberry, Louisiana. Flaring, a common sight at LNG plants, is a controlled burning of gas for reasons ranging from depressurizing equipment to disposing of gas that can’t be used. The practice is a "waste of money" and negatively impacts climate change and human health, says the International Energy Agency.

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