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Vegetarian Spider Found Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
Scientists have discovered another vegetarian spider and have named it Bagheera kiplingi (named after the panther in Rudyard Kipling’s “The Jungle Book). I think Bagheera badbudi would be a better choice :D
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Plants Perform Quantum Computation Posted: 1 month ago by 2manyusernames
Plants soak up an incredible amount of sunlight, absorbing 95% of its energy. Amazingly they do this with very little loss of sunlight as heat because they manage to convert the light into carbohydrates in one million billionths of a second. How plants manage this feat has been a mystery. A possible answer has now been found and it opens up new mysteries.
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Jupiter's Moon Europa Has Enough Oxygen For Life Posted: 1 month ago by bernardblack
Jupiter's moon, Europa has ocean water twice as much as all of the Earth. New evidence indicates that not only is there enough oxygen to support microorganisms but perhaps even enough to support greater lifeforms. The time it will take to unlock this oxygen is a good sign for eventual life as it gives time for organisms to evolve protection against oxygen's harmful effects.
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The Claim: Always Wash Your Hands With Hot Water, Not Cold Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
I wash my hands in scalding hot water, just so everyone knows that they're clean. Nothing says "this dude's hands are CLEAN" like Lobster-hands!
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The Millennial Muddle Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
For as long as human hair has turned gray, elders have looked at their successors and frowned. "Children nowadays are tyrants," goes an old quotation widely attributed to Socrates. "They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble their food, and tyrannize their teachers."
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Facial Profiling Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
Can you tell if a man is dangerous by the shape of his mug?
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Vandenberg turns into a reef. Posted: 1 month ago by maven
Not the base, the 527-foot former missile tracking ship. It was sunk off the Florida Keys to create a reef...And critters are moving in.
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The Arctic Circle Will Have Ice Free Summers in 10 Years Posted: 1 month ago by suebe
The Catlin Arctic Survey was working with the World Wildlife Fund, and the WWF warns, "This could lead to flooding affecting one-quarter of the world's population, substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions from massive carbon pools and extreme global weather changes."
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The halo effect Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
If we see a person first in a good light, it is difficult subsequently to darken that light.
*does this halo make my butt look big?*
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Animals feel the pain of religious slaughter Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
Brain signals have shown that calves do appear to feel pain when slaughtered according to Jewish and Muslim religious law, strengthening the case for adapting the practices to make them more humane.
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Flying Reptile May Have Snatched Dinosaurs in Midair Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
A crow-sized reptile sporting a lengthy tail likely soared through the skies some 160 million years ago, snatching feathered dinosaurs and tiny flying mammals from the air, suggest fossils of a newly identified pterosaur.
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Even the Maya are getting sick of the hype Posted: 1 month ago by jhordie
The frenzy is building over mostly Western generated misinformation regarding the Mayan calendar.
The Maya have more important things to worry about, like rain.
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The story of the Gömböc Posted: 1 month ago by Bornbad
A Gömböc is a strange thing. It looks like an egg with sharp edges, and when you put it down it starts wriggling and rolling around with an apparent will of its own.
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Pacific ocean "Dead Zone" may be forever Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
An oxygen-depleted "dead zone" the size of New Jersey (well, figures!) is starving sea life near the coast of Oregon and Washington.
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NASA tweaks killer asteroid's trajectory of death Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
NASA has recalculated the trajectory of asteroid Apophis and concluded that Bruce Willis can stand down from a state of doom-body-busting readiness.
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Scientist re-creates Turin Shroud to show it's fake Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
An Italian scientist says he has reproduced one of the world's most famous Catholic relics, the Shroud of Turin, to support his belief it is a medieval fake, not the cloth Jesus was buried in.
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Science Confirms the Obvious Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Who Would Have Thought? Ducks Like Water!
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Carl Sagan, spaced out on pot Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
In 1969, Sagan contributed a piece about his marijuana use for the book "Marihuana Reconsidered." Sagan wrote under the pseudonym of Mr. X, but he was later confirmed as the author.
*props to boingboing*
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Visual analgesia: Seeing the body reduces pain Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The authors suggest that the analgesic effect occurs because it enhances the sense of body ownership, the sense that one's body belongs to oneself. Viewing one's hand in pain may therefore increase one's sense of ownership over the hand, and in turn increase bodily control of it.
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Are you asleep? Exploring the mind's twilight zone Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
EARLIER this year, a puzzling report appeared in the journal Sleep Medicine. It described two Italian people who never truly slept. They might lie down and close their eyes, but read-outs of brain activity showed none of the normal patterns associated with sleep. Their behaviour was pretty odd, too.
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2 Americans, 1 Israeli win Nobel chemistry prize for studies on ribosome Posted: 2 months ago by sharon22
This year's Nobel prize for chemistry has been awarded to Professors Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath.
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The waking nightmare of sleep paralysis Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Imagine awaking to a strong sense of a 'presence', pressure on your chest, intense fear and hallucinations, but being incapable of moving a muscle.
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love cocaine? got vaccine! plus zeroes effect Posted: 2 months ago by tgkprog
Vaccine works similar to vaccines for microorganisms, training your body to view cocaine as a bad invader.
* Thirty-eight percent produced anti-cocaine antibodies
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Van Gogh and the Colours of Night Posted: 2 months ago by chez
Van Gogh was comforted and inspired by the night, as a new show in Amsterdam highlights. But was this fascination a symptom of mental disorder?
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It's In The Blood Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Menstruation is often seen as embarrassing or disgusting and is rarely discussed. But some feminists are determined to break this taboo
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