November 15, 2003

» Quayle Quote Quorner

Dan Quayle - Famous Quotes and Quotations

Wit and wisdom from the man who makes George H.W. Bush sound like Demosthenes

» Human chimera discovered

Telegraph | News | Sons I gave birth to are 'unrelated' to me

A study in the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr Margot Kruskall, of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Centre in Boston, Massachusetts, showed that Jane is a chimera, a mixture of two individuals - non-identical twin sisters - whose cells intermingled in the womb and grew into a single body.

» Why we like rare things

Science news articles, Discover Magazine subscriptions, Science magazines online - Discover.ComAppeal of the Rare

Contrast enhancement may have some advantages in the realm of predatory behavior. Consider the archetypal way the hyena hunts. It provokes a bunch of zebras into running and picks out the one thatâ??s differentâ??the slowest. Predators have what psychologists call a search image for the outlier.