Gossip is Good!

Science says gossip's good for you Story by CHARLES ONYANGO-OBBO / WHAT OTHERS SAY Publication Date: 8/25/2005

To ordinary folks like me on the streets of Nairobi, an anthropologist is someone like the late Margaret Leakey, or her husband Louis, scouring the bushes in the Rift Valley looking for bones of early humans. We are years behind, because anthropology has moved on to a totally different plane. Two anthropologists, Kevin Kniffin of the University of Wisconsin and David Wilson of the State University of New York, have just spent 18 months studying a subject with absolutely no bones in it, gossip. Yes, gossip. To read the full story click on the TITLE above. Now that you know it's good, SEND SOME!