OCT. 7 8:12 A.M. ET A Singapore court Friday sentenced two ethnic Chinese to prison for posting racist remarks about ethnic Malays on the Internet, in what is considered a landmark case underscoring the government's attempts to crack down on racial intolerance and regulate online expression.Animal shelter worker Benjamin Koh Song Huat, 27, was ( Read more... )

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Primate experts say they have proven that chimpanzees, like humans, show social conformity.By training captive chimps to use tools in different ways, they have shown experimentally that primates develop cultural traditions through imitation ( Read more... )

For a year five experts ditched theory for practice, running a Welsh farm using 17th Century methods. What lessons for modern living did they learn?


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Indian Ocean islanders who used ancient lore to escape last year's tsunami are facing a new threat that could extinguish their traditional way of life: modernization. The Jarawa, thought to number less than 300, live on the isolated islands of Andaman and Nicobar in the Bay of Bengal. It was this coral island chain that took the brunt of the ( Read more... )