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News items read by Laura Kelley include: BNew Mayan mural shows rare glimpse of common peoples life(details) Early Japanese building raises new debate over location of ancient kingdom(details) Newly found Tennessee fort was a stop on the Trail of Tears(details) Canaanite palace mural shows Minoan connections(details)

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Montana rancher Duncan McBride can't deny the sizzling attraction between himself and the stunning archeologist, Raven La Blanc, who's come to authenticate cave drawings on his property. He asks for one night of passion. Raven will settle for nothing less than a lifetime.

Evolving an ability to run long distances might have been key to survival for early humans. In this podcast, we talked to Dan Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, to find out why. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gaia Remerowski. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. Major funding for NOVA scienceNOW is provided by the National Science Foundation and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additional funding is provided by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. 0229297. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. For more fun science stories, visit our website at pbs.org/nova/sciencenow

Evolving an ability to run long distances might have been key to survival for early humans. In this podcast, we talked to Dan Lieberman, an evolutionary biologist at Harvard University, to find out why. Podcast produced by David Levin. Original interview by Gaia Remerowski. NOVA is produced by WGBH in Boston. Funding for NOVA is provided by ExxonMobil, David H. Koch, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers. To learn more, go to pbs.org/nova/becominghuman

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/becoming-human-part-2.html In "Birth of Humanity," the second part of the three-part series "Becoming Human," NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us "Turkana Boy" an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. Premiers on air and online Tuesday, November 10, 2009. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/beta/evolution/becoming-human-part-2.html

http://www.ted.com We worry that IM, texting, Facebook are spoiling human intimacy, but Stefana Broadbent's research shows how communication tech is capable of cultivating deeper relationships, bringing love across barriers like distance and workplace rules. TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the Sixth Sense wearable tech, and Lost producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at http://www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

Montana rancher Duncan McBride can't deny the sizzling attraction between himself and the stunning archeologist, Raven La Blanc, who's come to authenticate cave drawings on his property. He asks for one night of passion. Raven will settle for nothing less than a lifetime.

A trailer for the upcoming gaming show The Game Anthropologist.