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<jats:p>The social science and survey research communities that rely upon the data are watching anxiously as new procedures are being ironed out for determining which questions get asked on the American Community Survey (ACS), a monthly sampling of 3 million households a year that asks residents 75 questions about everything from their incomes and disabilities to how long it takes them to get to work.</jats:p>

<jats:p> <jats:italic>Science</jats:italic> Insider reported this week that the United Kingdom plans to create the world's largest marine reserve—an area larger than California—in its territorial waters in the Indian Ocean, among other stories. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A provocative model suggests that a shift in what and how we remember may have been key to the evolution of human cognition.</jats:p>

<jats:p> The idea that a better working memory made <jats:italic>Homo sapiens</jats:italic> smarter than its ancestors is attracting attention from psychologists, archaeologists, and neuroscientists alike ( <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/328/5975/160">see main text</jats:ext-link> ). But now some researchers are challenging some of the basic tenets of the model it's based on. </jats:p>

<jats:p>The first archaeological signs of art and symbolism may mark new heights of social interaction rather than a cognitive leap.</jats:p>

<jats:p>A computer tournament has revealed the benefit of copying someone else's actions over solving a problem solo, a finding that has implications for cultural evolution.</jats:p>

<jats:p> The pair of graduate students who designed the winning computer program in a recent social-learning tournament ( <jats:ext-link xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" ext-link-type="uri" xlink:href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/short/328/5975/165">see main text</jats:ext-link> ) obsessively spent hundreds of hours perfecting their social-learning strategy. </jats:p>