http://www.physorg.com/news97857326.html

Research confirms theory that all modern humans descended from the same small group of people

A moment’s contemplation should reveal to everyone that humans descended from two specific ancestors - the first “human” who mated with a “nearly human” to produce “human” children.

I’m not sure why this would be a surprise to anyone

Kevin Rutherford brings the goods.

Daniel Hai provides a bunch of techniques to improve the speed of certain common actions in ActionScript 3. None of them were screaming at me to implement forthwith, but they are worth reading and being familiar with in case you’ll need them in the future.