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Thursday, March 08, 2012
13.7: Cosmos And Culture
Desert Trackways: 7-Million-Year-Old Clues To Elephant Social Complexity
March 8, 2012 Discovery of fossilized footprints in the Arabian desert tells us that elephants have lived in complex families for 7 million years. Elephants have adapted to changing conditions for millenia, but can they withstand the stresses we humans inflict today?
Monday, August 02, 2010
The Two-Way
BlackBerry Crackdown Starts In Arab Gulf States
August 2, 2010 The UAE government has announced it will start blocking BlackBerry data service in October because it apparently can't break the devices' encryption. The UAE says BlackBerrys represent a security risk to the "social, judicial and national security" since they use encryption software that makes it impossible for security officials to snoop on messages.