Hunting, traditionally done by men, required a “co-ordinating” ability to track animals accurately while on the move. A “categorical” spatial awareness was better suited to foraging for fruit, roots or berries, a job mainly carried out by women. “Women tend to be more aware than men of objects around them, including those that seem irrelevant to the current task, whereas men out-perform women in navigation tasks,” the scientists told PNAS.

Shirwa Ahmed, the first known suicide bomber with U.S. citizenship, apparently was indoctrinated in Minnesota. FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday in Washington, D.C., that a Somali-American man from Minnesota who was one of several suicide bombers in a terrorist attack in Somalia had apparently been indoctrinated into his extremist beliefs while living in Minneapolis. The FBI director, who spoke at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, declined

In response to a request for fundamental decency, I put both pics beneath the fold. NSFW. NSFBreakfast.

From Sean Penn’s Academy lecture: I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect, and anticipate their great shame, and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are these last 2 things. I’m very, very proud to live in a country

Not exactly getting the JTP treatment, is she? Don’t they vet these people at all?

is one of the helpful observations I received in this email bulletin: Lester Eubanks is wanted for escaping from jail. On May 25, 1966, Eubanks was convicted of murdering a teenage girl during an attempted rape in Mansfield, Ohio. Eubanks shot the victim twice. He then returned to the victim’s location and smashed her skull with a brick. At the time of the offense, Eubanks was on bail for another

The Oscars were once again all about scumbag millionaires. Here’s Jules’s critique of the thing: Here’s what I think: That show last night was like a St. Vitus dance by a plastic surgery addicted dowager who’s misplaced her reading glasses and keeps forgetting which decade she’s in. She was in constant danger of popping out of the front of her elaborate napkin-arrangement designer dress, a prospect that only filled viewers

“This just isn’t fair. Everyone in this country wants to watch American Idol and nobody wants to watch what we write. When did America get so stupid?” More about potato-headed fag hunter Bill Moyers. Via Kevin in comments, BTV is covering the Oscars, too.

Where: Chicago, IL, Tony Cecchine’s private gym (a few minutes outside O’Hare) When: April 10-12 2009 (note: if you’d like to come out a day early or stay a day late for some extra training, we’re cool with that; as part of the instructor program, many of us will be staying a few extra days anyway, so you hang with us and workout for no extra cost). What: In addition

by nefarious behavior of radically alcoholic Irish Catholics. I’m recurring to the quote I reproduced here: Meanwhile, Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, a producer and host for Bridges TV who worked alongside the Hassans, said “now is not the time” to debate the cultural and religious context of the murder that appears to be an honor killing inspired by Aasiya Hassan’s desire to divorce her husband. “There will be time for that