Everyone: call on the World Bank to throw out the mining company's case against El Salvador.

US citizens: call on Congress to fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund.

In the UK: support the Open Rights Group's campaign against increased (and almost unlimited) surveillance power.

A skull from 430,000 years ago shows evidence of murder with a blunt object.

The cave where 28 skeletons were found also shows evidence of funeral practices.

This does not surprise me, since humans kill each other, and so do chimpanzees. In the case of chimpanzees, it is typically a group that does the killing, and that is common for humans too. It seems plausible that the common ancestor of the two species did this also.

However, the different example of bonobos show that another way exists.

Blacklisted Workers Seek to Prise Open Secrets of Covert Police Surveillance.