Read more modern man stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/4902/modern-man.html2010 - Newseren-usNewser Feed Generator2010-03-22T09:17:39http://www.newser.com/story/81870/toyota-mess-is-the-price-we-pay-for-a-modern-world.htmlCharles Krauthammer doesn't want to let Toyota off the hook for its dangerous cars, but he sees such "wondrous and potentially lethal" products as inseparable from the modern world. Problems are inevitable, and if we over-react and shut down all the factories over every complaint, "we'd have no industrial society...http://www.newser.com/story/81870/toyota-mess-is-the-price-we-pay-for-a-modern-world.html2010-02-26T18:20:00http://www.newser.com/story/71648/anthropologist-modern-male-is-worst-man-ever.htmlCalifornia Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is such a girly man by Neanderthal standards that some caveman's wife could have kicked his ass in arm wrestling, an Australian anthropologist argues in his new book. In fact, Peter McAllister calls modern males the "worst" men in history, at least when it comes to...http://www.newser.com/story/71648/anthropologist-modern-male-is-worst-man-ever.html2009-10-14T10:00:56http://www.newser.com/story/33154/what-was-i-writing.htmlWe all complain about the myriad distractions in the wired world, but Bryan Appleyard goes further in the Guardian: Distraction is not just annoying, it can kill you, and will be the downfall of democracy. “Chronic, long-term distraction” may be as deadly as smoking, and the habits of the contemporary,...http://www.newser.com/story/33154/what-was-i-writing.html2008-07-23T21:39:58http://www.newser.com/story/639/fossil-proves-were-all-african.htmlAn ancient jawbone found in Morocco suggests that modern human ancestry emerged 100,000 years earlier than previously believed—and in Africa, rather than Europe. Until now, scientists believed that modern humans didn't emerge until 20,000 to 30,000 years ago. But the Moroccan bone is 160,000 years...http://www.newser.com/story/639/fossil-proves-were-all-african.html2007-03-14T12:04:11