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Dead Zones Doubling Every Decade Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Earth's oceans currently have more than 400 dead zones, oxygen-starved areas that are hundreds or thousands of square miles and virtually devoid of life during summer months.
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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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Convertibles bad for your ears Posted: 2 months ago by Ankabout
Experts have warned that driving in a convertible can be bad for your ears.
So no more convertibles!
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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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What's Inside a Cup of Coffee? Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Caffeine
This is why the world produces more than 16 billion pounds of coffee beans per year. It's actually an alkaloid plant toxin (like nicotine and cocaine), a bug killer that stimulates us by blocking neuroreceptors for the sleep chemical adenosine. The result: you, awake.
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What's the One nagging thing you still don't understand about yourself Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
The Digest editor has invited some of the world's leading psychologists to look inwards and share, in 150 words, one nagging thing they still don't understand about themselves. Their responses are by turns candid, witty and thought-provoking. Here's what they had to say:
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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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H1N1 Vaccine Arrives Posted: 2 months ago by Pazez
A little earlier than expected. Hopefully the ugly vaccination stories that I've been reading lately don't show their face for this guy.
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One hamburger sent a 23 year-old woman into a coma for nine weeks. When she awoke, she could no longer walk. Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes. Follow the secretive chain of events bringing E. coli into her life. Contemporary carnivores read at your own risk...
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Candy-gobbling kids may turn violent as adults Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Study: Many who ate too many sweets were arrested for violence by age 34.
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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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Dark Matter - The plot thickens Posted: 2 months ago by bernardblack
Should we abandon this enigmatic concept of invisible matter that exerts gravitational attraction but is otherwise undetectable? Could it be that we simply do not understand the long-range behavior of gravity?
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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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Ted Williams' frozen head for batting practice at cryogenics lab Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
Workers at an Arizona cryonics facility allegedly mutilated the frozen head of baseball legend Ted Williams - even using it for a bizarre batting practice
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Repairing Broken Bones With Dissolvable Glass Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Steel or titanium is great for helping bones to repair but they have to be removed once the repair is completed. A new metallic glass mixture of o 60% magnesium, 35% zinc and 5% calcium has been created in Switzerland that will perform like steel but will dissolve instead of having to be surgically removed.
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..cloudy with a chance of pebble showers Posted: 2 months ago by equinox
The sunshine, rain, fog and snow of our home planet are so familiar that we find it next to impossible to imagine a different atmosphere and other forms of precipitation. Yet exoplanet COROT-7b's atmosphere is made up of the ingredients of rocks, and when a front moves in, pebbles condense out of the air and rain into lakes of molten lava below.
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Mom Goes Blind So Her Daughters Can See Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
Monique Zimmerman-Stein has been nearly blind for the last two years from Stickler syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. She recently decided to forgo her own treatment to save funds to treat her two daughters, who also suffer from the condition, reports Lane DeGregory of the St. Petersburg Times.
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Carbon Offset Kiosks Help Air Travelers Ditch Guilt Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
The airport has partnered with a private company to provide the offsets. But carbon offsets for travel are unregulated, so will patrons get what they pay for?
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Galaxy's centre tastes of raspberries and smells of rum Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Scientists hunting for amino acids in the giant dust cloud at the center of the Milky Way were surprised to discover ethyl formate, a chemical that smells like rum and gives raspberries their unique taste.
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How Sewing Machines Work Posted: 2 months ago by bcgrote
Even as a "threadhead", I never understood just how these machines make stitches. Here is an article with VERY good animations of how it happens!
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Things That Science Can't Explain Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
This is just going to be a light-hearted thread about things that science can't explain.
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Study reveals 2/3 of prostate cancer patients do not need treatment Posted: 2 months ago by bernardblack
In the largest study of its kind, more than 4000 prostate cancer patients were tracked. Findings from the study show that aggressive cancer requiring surgery has a certain protein indicator. More than 60% of the patients lacked the indicator and could be treated with careful monitoring.
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