links for 2008-04-08

Our response to the things that scare us, from threatening men on dark streets to hairy spiders in the bath, is programmed to become active at different times in our lives, suggest two studies on the genetics of fear.

Traffic analysts Hitwise released new numbers today finding that Google’s marketshare in US searches rose last month to an all time high of 67% of searches performed. Yahoo! Search (20%), MSN Search (5.25%) and Ask.com (4%) trail far behind but aren’t ins

Jive Software has released version 2.0 of their Clearspace product. Clearspace differs from other product offerings by focusing their product on the people who will be utilizing the collaboration tool.

En Suisse, l’origine sociale conditionne le succès scolaire avant l’intelligence et le travail

Defending businesses based on scarce production is simply special pleading in the face of a change this epochal (…) Found via Headshift