Here's an evolutionary talking point: Two new studies quantify parts of the mechanism by which frequently used words change slowly over many millennia whereas rarely used words more rapidly take on new forms.

In fact, frequency of word usage exerts a "lawlike" influence on the rapidity of language evolution, the research teams conclude in the Oct. 11 Nature. This discovery offers a new tool for retracing the history of major language families, reconstructing ancient tongues, and

If you think solar is still too expensive, here’s how to get more bang for your solar-cell buck.

http://louis5j5sheehan5esquire.blogspot.com  Take a small solar cell, and slice it into thin slivers. Wrap the slivers around the edges of a slab of glass. Paint the glass with a high-tech, but cheap, dye — which you bought online — and voilà! You have a new solar panel. It can collect much more energy than the pricey cell you started with, and it costs only a little more.

If done

In September, the Topps Meat Company of Elizabeth, New Jersey, issued the second largest beef recall in U.S. history—21.7 million pounds of ground beef. http://louiskjksheehan.blogspot.comThe recall came after an investigation, carried out by the New York State Department of Health and the CDC, linked bacteria from Topps’s frozen ground beef patties to an outbreak of the O157:H7 strain of E. coli that sickened 40 people in eight states.

Infection with E. coli O157:H7—a virulent strain of