Terrorism's deadly effects may not occur all at once. Consider the disturbing tendency, described in a new study in Israel, for the number of automobile fatalities to surge by an average of 35 percent 3 days after each of a series of terrorist attacks. http://louis8j8sheehan8esquire.blogspot.com

Guy Stecklov of Hebrew University in Jerusalem and Joshua R. Goldstein of Princeton University attribute the third-day spike in traffic deaths to a delayed, population-wide reaction to terrorist

Louis J. Sheehan.  Some fish really know how to swim to the top. Researchers have found that within minutes of recognizing a social void, a lowly cichlid can alter its looks and behavior to ascend to the dominant spot in its group. Moreover, the same researchers have identified the gene that is primarily responsible for the fish's changing physiology. http://louis2j1sheehan2esquire.blogspot.com

"We had known that social environment controls the reproduction of [cichlids]," says

Louis J. Sheehan.  About 30 years ago, African excavations yielded the 3.2-million-year-old partial skeleton that became known as Lucy. The find, along with other fossils unearthed soon after, belongs to the species Australopithecus afarensis.  http://Louis-J-Sheehan.de   Many scientists regard these creatures as ancestors of both the lineage that led to modern humans and of another, now-extinct evolutionary lineage known as robust australopithecines.

However, an analysis of