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  • American Exceptionalism

    A term we’ve heard a lot lately with the Texas textbook showdown.


    I remember after 9/11 thinking that as horrific as the day was…that it had probably ended racism. I thought Americanism would prevail. That we’d band together and hate them more than we hated each other. Like they did the Japanese and the Germans in early 40’s. I thought we were going to embrace jingoism and WIN.

    But, I don’t need to tell you that didn’t happen. In fact, quite the opposite. The Left would embrace terrorists into their ranks before they would someone from the right. And in the aftermath of 9/11 we’ve been pressured to become ‘world citizens.’

    SO, since we’re supposed to learn from history…I’m wondering why it’s the greatest generation that seems to have raised the worst generation. Why do the children of the greatest generation want to dismantle all that their parents fought for and loved?

    If American exceptionalism had prevailed after 9/11 and America truly was 50 States UNITED against those that would do her harm…the horror would have served a noble purpose. Instead, it remains a senseless travesty…

  • Video: Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button drive the McLaren MP4-12C

    McLaren Automotive yesterday officially revealed the final production version of the MP4-12C supercar, the firm’s first road-going performance car since the McLaren F1. Well, McLaren thought who better to give it to take it out on the track than McLaren’s Formula 1 driving team – Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton.

    Here is a video of the two taking the new McLaren MP4-12C for a spin.

    Make the jump for the video.

    Click here to read our original post on the official launch of the McLaren MP4-12C.

    Click here to read more news on the McLaren MP4-12C.

    Refresher: Power for the 2011 McLaren MP4-12C comes from a 3.8L V8 twin-turbo engine producing around 600-hp mated to a 7-speed Seamless Shift dual-clutch gearbox (SSG). 0 to 60 mph is expected to come in the low 3 second range with a top speed of more than 200 mph. Sales begin in early 2011.

    2011 McLaren MP4-12C:

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    Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button drive the McLaren MP4-12C:

    2011 McLaren MP4-12C:

    – By: Omar Rana


  • Next-generation Beetle to be more dynamic, hybrid variant in the works

    The seconds-generation of the reborn, redesigned Volkswagen Beetle will make its concept debut at the 2010 LA Auto Show later this year. The production model will go on sale next year with more focus on driving dynamics rather than retro styling – meaning Volkswagen will take on the likes of the Mini Cooper.

    The next-generation Volkswagen Beetle will get an upgraded chassis with wider tracks and a longer wheelbase. It will get MacPherson struts suspension up front and a torsion beam at the rear.

    Click here to get prices on the 2010 Volkswagen Beetle.

    The range-topping mode will be powered by a 2.0L 210-hp engine and will have a multi-link rear to improve handling. Other engine choices will include a 105-hp 1.2L, a 160-hp 1.4L and a 210-hp 2.0L. The U.S. will get a 170-hp 2.5L 5-cylinder as well.

    A hybrid model of the next-generation Beetle is also planned.

    – By: Kap Shah

    Source: AutoCar


  • Flood DC in Calls and Paper

    U.S. Capitol Switchboard:
    1 (202) 224-3121 (call TODAY and ask for your senators’ and/or representative’s office to voice your opinion on the Health care bill)

    And Rush had another great idea:

    Flood the capitol in paper too. Send letters that read “VOTE NO ON HEALTH CARE BILL” to your Reps TODAY. Send them overnight by FedEx, UPS and USPS. Like Rush said, it’ll cost money, but you’ll be stimulating the economy while your flooding your reps and Senator’s offices and crowding the streets with trucks…on a Saturday.

    If you don’t have the time and/or money…and email is also good.

    Find your Representative’s here.

    Find your Senators here.

    And here’s the link to a free fax service.

    Also, Rep. Steve King (R-IA) is urging opponents of the bill to attend a March 20th Capitol Hill rally to protest the health care reform bill:

    “We can beat them if we fill this capitol city up full of patriotic Americans. If tens of thousands pour into this city again, like they have done numerous times before — pack this Capitol, jam this Capitol, surround the place, don’t let anybody in or anybody out — they will have to capitulate.”

  • Yahoo Mail Gets Auto-Updated Contacts Information

    Yahoo Contacts has just gotten a very useful, new feature, one that could finally address books more like they should be in 2010. Rather than the static contact information system we’ve been using for more than a decade in email services, Yahoo Contacts can now automatically sync and stay updated with the latest information on your connections.<... (read more)

  • Kos Kids Embrace Censorship…Yet Again.

    A Bible verse for the President?

    Have you seen these bumper stickers? They say “Pray for Obama: Psalm 109:8” and it’s up to you to look it up when you get home… I just saw one for the first time the other day.

    Psalm 109:8 “May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.”

    Of course, while I was Googling I noticed some articles written by the humourless Left with claims it’s a call for Obama’s death… Good Lord, can’t a joke just be a joke…?

    The answer is NO. It seems some Kos Kids had all the Psalm 109:8 merchandise banned from CafePress and Zazzle. Once again, it’s THE LEFT that despises free speech (not to mention The Bible)…

    How did I not hear about all this when it was going down?

  • Mazda considering diesel for U.S. CX-7 crossover

    Mazda is seriously considering a 4-cylinder diesel for the CX crossover for the U.S. market in efforts to boost fuel-economy without sacrificing performance, reports Road&Track.

    The 2.2L diesel inline 4-cylinder in the European 5-passenger CX-7 makes 170-hp and a peak torque of 295 lb-ft. That’s enough to get it from 0-62 mph in 11.3 seconds. In comparison, the 2.3L direct-injection gasoline engine makes 260-hp, allowing the CX-7 to go from 0-62 mph in 8.2 seconds.

    Click here to get prices on the 2010 Mazda CX-7.

    If the decision to bring diesel to the U.S. is approved, a Mazda official says that it would be the company’s next-generation diesel called SKY-D that would make it here. It is a little bit more powerful than the 2.2L diesel unit and would most likely be offered with the company’s new dual-clutch automated gearbox. The 6-speed manual may also be retained.

    – By: Kap Shah

    Source: Road&Track


  • Google Calendar Gets an Automated Smart Rescheduler

    Rescheduling an appointment can be a real hassle and the more people involved the harder it gets. But most people don’t have a personal assistant or someone to handle this task, which results in a lot of time wasted trying to fit a meeting into everyone’s schedule. Now, Google is trying to fix that with an automated rescheduler for Google Cale… (read more)

  • AutoblogGreen for 03.19.10

    Greenlings: What realistic electric vehicle recharge options are there for apartment dwellers?
    We found four, five if you count moving.
    		 Kuwaiti study: Conventional oil to peak in 2014
    Who’s worried?
    Report: BYD cutting back electric vehicle production plans
    Hmmm.    		 Other news:

    AutoblogGreen for 03.19.10 originally appeared on Autoblog on Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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  • Global Warming on Trial by Dexter Wright, AmericanThinker.com

    Article Tags: Dexter Wright

    In 2005, the late Dr. Michael Crichton wrote a book of fiction called State of Fear. The plot of the storyline is the exposé of the fraudulent science behind the global warming theory in the middle of a fictitious court case. The book was a bestseller, and in a strange twist of circumstances, it landed Dr. Crichton in front of a Senate committee. Now it seems that life is indeed imitating art.

    In the past few years, there have been many court cases concerning the actions of governments to the alleged threat of global warming. The latest has been filed by Texas against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with respect to the Endangerment Finding of Carbon Dioxide (CO2).

    Texas has filed two petitions in federal court. The first is a request for review of the endangerment finding, which is intended to examine the science behind global warming. The second is a petition for reconsideration of the finding. These court cases were brought about in the wake of the Climategate scandal. Climategate has revealed that significant portions of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Fourth Assessment Report (AR4) were based on fraudulent science.

    The crux of the matter is that the EPA based the endangerment finding on the now-discredited IPCC report. To date, the IPCC have admitted to two significant erroneous claims. First, they admitted to the fact that the Himalayan glaciers are not melting away, and secondly, they have stated that the claim of the trends of natural disasters attributed to global warming is overstated. Subsequently, the IPCC have been prompted to publicly state that they are reviewing their own quality assurance procedures in light of these admissions.

    Click source to read FULL report by Dexter Wright

    Source: americanthinker.com

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  • Scientific Alliance Newsletter – Climate Change: Both Sides Dig In

    Article Tags: ClimateGate

    Where the climate change debate is concerned, the temptation to use military metaphors is sometimes irresistible. Until recently, the vastly superior forces of the IPCC and its allies in the scientific establishment have prevailed against the guerrilla warfare of the sceptics, who have sometimes done localised damage but never threatened the monolith. However, as a series of weaknesses in their campaign have become increasingly public, those who are currently in the scientific mainstream are being forced to conduct a more vigorous defence of their position. But the various groups of dissenting and sceptical irregulars, though they have gained ground, are far from having won the war. Both camps are now digging in for the long haul. Whether there will ever be a decisive victory for one side or the other is doubtful, but for now the battlefield is at least more even.

    Without belabouring the metaphor any further, what has reduced the seemingly unstoppable impetus of the climate change policy brigade? The answer is really two-fold: a failure to achieve meaningful agreement in Copenhagen , which had been billed as the make-or-break summit, and a series of revelations about the workings of the IPCC panel which raise serious questions about credibility. Taken together, the resultant loss in policy-making momentum may never be regained. The consequence is likely to be that any meaningful post-Kyoto agreement might have to be negotiated in light of considerably more evidence than we currently have, which is surely no bad thing.

    Source: Twitter Trend

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  • Google's ANGLE Project, WebGL Based on DirectX

    Hardware-accelerated 3D graphics are coming to the web sooner than you might think thanks to a joint project dubbed WebGL. It was initiated by Mozilla and the Khronos Group, which oversees OpenGL, and is supported by most major web-browser manufacturers, with the expected exception of Microsoft. WebGL uses the OpenGL graphics API for the underlying … (read more)

  • Viacom and YouTube Draw Swords As Court Documents Are Revealed

    The three-year-old legal battle between media giants Google-owned YouTube and Viacom is heating up, as the lawsuit is about to get underway after all the preliminary hearings have been completed. In the meantime, a number of court documents from all parties involved have been released, the first time we’ve been able to get a clear l… (read more)

  • Legal Fight Over Design Of Disposable Coffee Cups

    Whatever happened to actually competing in the market place? Copycense points us to a recent legal battle between Dixie and Huhtamaki over the design of their disposable coffee cups. Seriously. Dixie claimed that Huhtamaki violated its trade dress because its cups, like Dixie’s, included a white band at the bottom of the cup. After two years in court, the judge, thankfully, didn’t see what the big deal was over both cups having a white strip at the bottom and ruled against Dixie. In part, the judge noted, Dixie never proved that the white strip was non-functional, which is important, since trade dress is supposed to be for non-functional design elements:


    Dixie even provided alternative designs for Huhtamaki to adopt to differentiate its cup from Dixie’s, according to the judge’s order.

    “Because Huhtamaki would either incur additional costs or sacrifice design quality if it were forced to adopt one of Dixie’s alternative designs, the court finds that the product feature in question is functional under the traditional test.”

    Still, just the fact that lawsuits like this even exist in the first place shows how far gone these things have gone. It’s as if every company feels entitled to having no competition whatsoever, and will sue anyone who offers anything remotely similar. What a sad state of affairs.

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  • “Who cares what a bunch of broads think?”

    Poor Bart Stupak, is having nun of this.

    Today, “60 leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns” sent a letter to federal lawmakers urging them to pass the Senate health care legislation.

    Nuns! What have nuns ever done for the Catholic Church? It’s the men that do all the heavy stuff, the lifting, the speaking, the petting, the hating, the beating, the covering up, the apologizing.

    No, Bart listens to the ones who really matter!

    “When I’m drafting right to life language, I don’t call up the nuns.” He says he instead confers with other groups including “leading bishops, Focus on the Family, and The National Right to Life Committee.”

    What else does Stupak listen to Focus on the Family for? The show & tell with your son? The animal rights policies?

    Listen Sister, Bart isn’t going to listen to a bunch of women tell him about what women think about womens’ bodies.

    Oh, and Bart says his lying and moaning about health care reform and abortion has made his life hell, why people have been calling and mocking him.

    Tell it to the family of Dr. Barnett Slepian or Dr. George Tiller, jackass.

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  • Mario decked in gold and diamonds up on eBay

    How would you like your local plumber to be decked in diamonds and gold? This plumber can afford it; the question is, can you? Up on eBay is a Mario pendant, packing a plunger punch of over

  • Video: Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom

    Have you met Majin yet? You know, the star of Namco Bandai’s newest multiplatformer, Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom. He’s cuddly, alright. And covered in foliage. And lethal when called for.
     
     
     

  • Bluefin Tuna Farmed in Japan

    The great news here is that tuna can be farmed successfully.  A two year grow out is surely faster than that achieved by salmon.
    This will be a major move in fishery efficiency.  I am sure bycatch is now been processed into fish feed by the great fishery fleets.
    A combination of a wild fishery operating as a supplier of both product and fish meal for the fish farms will support a large increase in farmed fish.
    The demise of the wild tuna fishery is now upon us and a desperate effort to shutter the actual fishery has begun.  The sudden emergence of a farmed tuna fishery could not be more welcome and will support a rapid recovery of the wild stocks so long as they halt fishing operations for some time.
    Japan firm breeds ‘sustainable’ bluefin tuna from eggs
    by Staff Writers

    Tokyo (AFP) March 15, 2010
    http://www.seeddaily.com/reports/Japan_firm_breeds_sustainable_bluefin_tuna_from_eggs_999.html
    A Japanese company has started exporting what it calls sustainably grown bluefin tuna, which it says allows sushi lovers to keep eating the species without driving down ocean stocks.

    Bluefin tuna is either caught in the open seas or farmed from baby fish caught in nets, but marine products company Burimy says it is the first to sell bluefin grown from artificially hatched eggs.

    “Our tuna won’t affect the ecological system so that we can help stop draining marine resources,” said Takahiro Hama, a director of the company based in the southern Japanese city of Amakusa.

    “We have just begun full shipments to the United States,” he said. “We hope to provide our sustainable tuna for Japanese sushi bars and restaurants which are concerned about protests from environmental activists.”

    Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks have crashed in recent decades due to industrial-scale fishing, mostly for the Japanese market.

    The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) is meeting until March 25 in Qatar and is set to vote on whether to declare the commercial trade in Atlantic bluefin a threat to the survival of the species.

    Burimy has teamed up with Japan’s Kinki University, which has succeeded in hatching eggs, nurturing baby fish and breeding them into fat adults in what the company says is the world’s first complete cultivation cycle.

    Burimy first bought 1,500 artificially hatched baby bluefin tuna from the university’s A-marine Kindai laboratory in December 2007 and over the next two years grew them into 1.2-metre (four-foot) adults.
    “This complete cultivation will help meet the demand of tuna-loving people without damaging the ecological balance,” said Osamu Murata, chief of the project at A-marine Kindai.
    “It may help the vision of bringing nature and humans into balance.”

    Since January, Burimy has shipped 20 fish a week to the United States.
    Small amounts of fully farmed bluefin tuna, dubbed Kindai tuna, have also been sold at Japanese department stores and shops, priced at 2,000 to 4,000 yen (22 to 44 dollars) per kilogram (10 to 20 dollars per pound).

    Burimy has set up five tanks measuring 40 by 40 metres that are 20 metres deep and filled with murky water to make the fast predator fish swim more slowly and avoid crashing into each other.

    The company expects to ship 7,000 to 10,000 of the fish a year by 2012, targeting annual sales of one billion yen (11 million dollars).

  • Reforming Russian Order of Battle




    Historically, Russia was the last bastion of a traditional conscript army suitable to fight out conflicts engaging like armies.  These were meant to achieve victory through simple attrition.  That world has ended, due to the modern soldier who must be well trained and superbly armed and superbly supported.
    Against conscript armies such as Iraq’s, the US army achieved mind boggling kill ratios.
    Even in the present wars of insurgency, the modern armies are minor and caused by indirect means such as IED’s.  The insurgency no longer owns the night and must move and operate almost in full view.
    Yet a nation such as Russia has legitimate security needs.  Thus this reports on the first steps toward reforming doctrine.
    The best way to achieve Russian aims would be to move toward full integration with the EU and NATO.  There are plenty of difficulties to overcome but the simple initiation of a beginning will speed everyone down that path.  It would also begin the end game with the various left over issues relating to the old USSR.
    NATO would emerge as the military expression of the West representing the war making capacity of one billion people now effectively united in culture, economic system and through a common set of political principles.  It is messy but it is still recognizable. The joining in of Russia, the Ukraine and the European remnants of their empire would create one powerful voice athwart Eurasia.
    Russian Military Reform In Times Of Crisis
    by Ilya Kramnik

    military commentator RIA Novosti

    Moscow (RIA Novosti) Mar 11, 2010
    http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Russian_Military_Reform_In_Times_Of_Crisis_999.html

    On March 5, 2010, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev attended an expanded meeting of the Ministry ofDefense in Moscow. The focus of this meeting was the ongoing military reform.

    The Russian war machine has not undergone such extensive restructuring in the past 150 years. New tables of organization were introduced in the army in early 2009. The four-tier troop-control system consisting of military districts, armies, divisions and regiments was replaced with a three-tier system consisting of tactical commands, brigades and battalions.

    The reforms have established new army brigades while disbanding a large number of reserve units to be called up in the event of a full-scale mobilization. The army is being prepared to fight in local and regionalconflicts of varying intensity, which are now considered the most likely form of military engagement for Russia.

    President Medvedev said that there is still the potential for conflict near the Russian border. As an example Medvedev cited the rebuilding of the Georgian army following its defeat in the five-day war fought with Russia in August 2008.

    As nuclear war is the only form of large-scale war imaginable under present circumstances, it is essential to preserve Russia‘s strategic nuclear forces.

    The army reforms have not been painless. In 2009, only a few units received excellent marks, and serious problems remain with respect to military cohesion. Nevertheless, it is still too early to draw conclusions based on the results of the first year. In effect, this was the first combat-training season under the new regime, and it is very difficult to score excellent marks from the get-go.

    The crisis has also affected military reform. Against the backdrop of a bad economy, Russian leaders were forced to scale back the role of contract soldiers and to draft more conscripts again. In light of Russia‘s demographic problem and the declining number of eligible conscripts, two-year military service may be reinstated in the near future, making it possible to call up fewer conscripts and to improve military-training standards.

    The crisis has also affected the formation of a professional sergeant corps. Warrant officers who were to have been replaced with contract sergeants and sergeant majors continue to serve with the Army and the Navy.

    Dmitry Medvedev has remarked on the even more serious problem of shortages of modern weapons in the Russian army. The Armed Forces have not received any new weapons systems in over 15 years. Consequently, their military equipment must be updated more quickly than in conditions of steady development.

    “I have instructed the government to upgrade an average of 9-11% of the weapons and military equipment each year. This will increase the share of modern military equipment to 70% by 2020,” Medvedev told ministry officials.

    The number of government defense contracts must be increased considerably in order to accomplish this objective. The Armed Forces must receive an annual minimum of 35 ballistic missiles, 50 new and 50 upgraded warplanes, 20 to 25 military helicopters, 3-4 sea-going and ocean-going warships, 2 nuclear-powered submarines and 1 diesel-powered submarine, etc.

    However, output is still lagging behind these targets. The defense industry has started to gradually increase production in order to equip the Army and strategic nuclear forces, but production of warplanes for the Air Force and ships and submarines for the Navy remain seriously behind schedule. Current procurement volumes will be able to replace no more than 50% of available Air Force and Navy equipment, which could seriously impair our national defense capabilities.

    Top officials at the Ministry of Defense admit that there are not enough government defense contracts at present. In December 2009, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov told Rossiiskaya Gazeta that the current volumes of government orders for military equipment are not final, and that they would continue to increase.

    However, Serdyukov also admitted that it is unlikely that the Russian defense industry could accomplish this objective unless it were overhauled, the details of which are currently under discussion.

    The Russian Armed Forces are now forced to buy foreign military equipment. There are plans to acquire two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships from France and to build two more at Russian shipyards under a French license. This deal aims to provide the Russian Navy with additional new ships and to overhaul the ship-building sector.

    Top Russian political and military leaders are openly discussing the problems facing the national Armed Forces. This is a positive development, as it shows that they understand the problems. However, the extent to which they understand is still not clear, as the military reforms and the system for awarding government defense contracts remain highly classified.

    The public, the media and the military itself often learn about changes only after they are well underway, making it extremely difficult to correct any missteps.

    The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti.

    Source: RIA Novosti.

  • Cro Magnom Skull 20% Larger



    For whatever reason, European versions of homo sapien sapien were robust during the Pleistocene.  Their contemporary was as robust.  Six foot heights appear normal and here we have evidence of a larger brain than typically expected.
    The earth of the Pleistocene was well populated with humanity in both hemispheres.  They certainly universally appeared to live as hunter gatherers and not as herders.  More settled populations lived on the coastal lowlands but these are all submerged three hundred feet.
    Inland we have huge game herds and their powerful hunters.
    In the end, we still have far too little evidence to know if the skull is exceptional. 
    Robust hunter gatherers do not exist today.  Their game herds no longer exist either.  Agricultural man shrank in response to a combination of conditions now been superseded.  Late child bearing and generational progression with sufficient food is again producing larger human beings
    Our men in the modern era are shaking out between six to six and a half foot tall and shoulder s and musculature is following.  We will be producing plenty of six foot Tarzans during the next few years.  The genetic potential was always there, but obviously suppressed in a society of scarcity.  It is worth noting that this resizing is also taking place among Chinese and other unexpected groupings.  It will take about three generations to be well expressed.
    It appears that Eurasian man as hunter gatherer was typically six foot tall and robust perhaps explaining measured brain size.  Subsistence agriculture shrunk him down.
    Replica of big skull from 28,000 years ago suggests human brains have started to shrink
    By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

    Last updated at 2:40 PM on 14th March 2010
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1257678/Replica-big-skull-28-000-years-ago-suggests-human-brains-started-shrink.html
    Our brains are shrinking, according to scientists who have recreated a 28,000-year-old skull from remains found in France.
    The French team, which claims to have produced one of the best replicas yet of an early modern human’s cranium, says it is up to 20 per cent bigger than ours.
    No one is suggesting this means our ancestors were more intelligent as studies have found there is only a minor link between brain size and IQ.
    Instead, it is believed the skull, called Cro Magnon 1 after the caves in the Dordogne where it found, suggests our brains are becoming more efficient like shrinking computers.
    But the project could shed light on a human evolutionary question that has divided and bemused the specialists: if our heads have started to shrivel, why is this happening?
    Cro Magnon 1 has been kept in the French National Museum of Natural History in Paris since it was discovered among five ancient skeletons in 1868.
    It is thought to have been a well-built, elderly man about 6ft tall.
    Already known to scientists worldwide, Cro Magnon 1 will become even more famous next week when a mold of his skull will be shown at the American National Museum of Natural History in Washington.
    The endocast was made by scanning the interior of the skull at the Quinze-Vingts Hospital in Paris to obtain a picture of the impression left by the brain on the neurocranium.
    Antoine Balzeau, of the French Museum of Natural History, transformed this into a 3D image that was in turn made into a mold by a specialist software prototyping firm.
    ‘It’s one of the most beautiful endocasts ever,’ Mr Balzeau told The Times.
    He said that an initial assessment of Cro Magnon 1’s skull confirmed the belief that brains had grown ‘slightly smaller over tens of thousands of years’, reversing an earlier trend towards bigger brains. 
    However, he said that the cerebellum — a brain structure linked to language and concentration — appears to take up a larger proportion of the head now than in the time of Cro Magnon 1.
    This suggests that some parts of the brain are more ‘compressible’ than others, he said.
    Several theories have been advanced to explain the mystery of the shrinking brain. One is that big heads were necessary to survive Upper Paleolithic life, which involved cold, outdoor activities.
    A second theory is that skulls developed to cope with a chewy diet of rabbits, reindeer, foxes and horses.
    As our food has become easier to eat, so our heads have stopped growing, according to supporters of this theory.
    Other experts say that with high infant mortality, only the toughest survived — and the toughest tended to have big heads.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1257678/Replica-big-skull-28-000-years-ago-suggests-human-brains-started-shrink.html#ixzz0iTsJZbvC