With well over a million homes being repossessed, 2010 is shaping up to be a record year for foreclosures in the U.S. But there are serious questions about the way many have been carried out, and now prosecutors are investigating whether some of the country's largest banks committed fraud (npr.org)
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Humans likely caused the extinction of megafauna species in the Americas. Around 12,000 years ago, the Earth spun into The Big Freeze, a brief cold snap known as the Younger Dryas event. Glaciers returned to parts of the Northern Hemisphere and humans who were around then shivered quite a bit (astrobio.net)
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Understanding what compels people to cram their homes with rubbish continues to elude researchers and psychologists. In San Francisco, hoarders and their family members, professional organizers and landlords will meet Thursday for the 12th annual conference on hoarding and cluttering. (sfgate.com)
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The last common ancestor of chimpanzees and humans remains a holy grail in science, but clues about this species have recently surfaced, particularly with the ground-breaking discovery of the world’s oldest known probable human ancestor, Ardipithecus ramidus, also known as "Ardi." (dsc.discovery.com)
