Movie Suggestion: Merchants of Doubt

Movie: Merchants of Doubt

From Sony Pictures classics:

http://sonyclassics.com/merchantsofdoubt/

Monetarizing and Commodifying our Attention

From The New York Times:

The Cost of Paying Attention

Homo habilis Fossil Finds, Junk DNA and New Frontiers in Gene Therapy

From the New York Times:

Jawbone Fossil Fills a Gap in Early Human Evolution

Is your "Junk DNA" actually junk?

From PBS NOVA:

Genetically Engineering Almost Anything

The surprising economics of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch

http://theweek.com/articles/541440/surprising-economics-great-pacific-garbage-patch

How the Rich and Poor Spend Money Today—and 30 Years Ago

From The Atlantic:

http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/04/how-the-rich-and-poor-spend-money-today-and-30-years-ago/360103/

Palm Oil, Anyone?

Uses of palm oil:

http://www.worldwildlife.org/pages/which-everyday-products-contain-palm-oil



Sustainable palm oil:

http://greenpalm.org/about-palm-oil/what-is-palm-oil

Palm oil plantation in Borneo:







Deforestation in Borneo:

Hominid jaw dredged up by fisherman near Taiwan! Homo erectus? H. heidelburgensis? Denisovan? or WHAT!?

http://www.livescience.com/49588-ancient-human-fossil-primitive-species.html

Middle-Out Economics vs. "TrickleDown/Reaganomics/"Voodoo" Economics and Class in America

http://theweek.com/articles/535236/conservative-obsession-finding-nextapple-wont-help-economy

http://billmoyers.com/2014/12/04/voodoo-econ/

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/opinion/paul-krugman-voodoo-economics-the-next-generation.html?_r=0


Class:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/26/business/economy/middle-class-shrinks-further-as-more-fall-out-instead-of-climbing-up.html?_r=0

http://theweek.com/articles/535832/are-republicans-weirdly-hesitant-talk-about-americas-middle-class

Why Early Humans Reshaped Their Children's Skulls

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141013-why-we-reshape-childrens-skulls

Fossils From Unknown Species Of Human Discovered

http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/fossil-teeth-dont-belong-any-extinct-human-species-known

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150122-is-this-a-new-species-of-human