Given that male hippos compete fiercely for access to females, we fully expected that adult males would be significantly larger in body size and have bigger tusks. It came as a surprise to discover that males only weighed on average 5% more than females.
Marta Baltruszewicz, University of Leeds As people around the world escape poverty, you might expect their energy use to increase. But my research in Nepal, Vietnam, and Zambia found the opposite: lower levels of deprivation were linked to lower levels of energy demand. What is behind this counter-intuitive finding? After all, the prevailing strategy to…
It seems that http://www.depletedcranium.com sadly does not exist anymore. Google is not helping when I try to find out why. Update Depleted Cranium is Back! (but doesn’t seem to be updated regularly) From the About Page: This page is science, sensational science and claims that just don’t have any evidence backing them up. This page focuses…