Bloggingheads: Sex, Violence and Bonobos [Science Saturday]

In this week's episode of Science Saturday, John Horgan and George Johnson discuss a recent debate about the identity of humanity's closest living relatives, an anthropological case study in the link between technology and violence, and the dizzying complexity of the mathematics of the financial crisis. And just in case you'd forgotten that John and George aren't fanatics about the Internet Age, they made sure to squeeze in a bit of curmudgeonly ranting against Twitter.

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Are these guys identical twins ?

they are so Statler and Waldorf of science, comical in their curmudgeouniness.

HEY!!! watchit.

By DrugMonkey (not verified) on 09 Mar 2009 #permalink