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Children Who Get Spanked Have Lower IQs Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Beat the defenseless into the hopeless.
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Same Fish In Queens Petshop For 41 Years Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Meet Buttkiss, the black pacu who has eaten more than 175,000 fish during his residence in Queens.
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It's Official: Water Found on the Moon Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Since man first touched the moon and brought pieces of it back to Earth, scientists have thought that the lunar surface was bone dry. But new observations from three different spacecraft have put this notion to rest with what has been called "unambiguous evidence" of water across the surface of the moon.
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British Study Backs "Killing Season" Hypothesis Posted: 2 months ago by suckersklub
Researchers say they have found a small but statistically significant increase in the number of patients who die each year when junior doctors start work.
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Why Dogs Sniff Each Other's Butts Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Do you ever wonder why dogs sniff each other’s butts? Whether it is a new acquaintance or old one, they meet up and immediately run to the rear. Most people believe it is their way of saying “hello.“ However, this is a myth. Dogs sniff each other’s butts for a much deeper reason - to get to know one another.
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How's your health...care? Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Here's a look at how other developed countries provide and pay for healthcare compared with the U.S. system, based on the most recent information available.
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Drinking is Good for Your Brain Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
Everyone knows too much beer can cause brain damage — but did you know alcohol might actually help cure it too?
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Fantastic Photos of our Solar System Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
We've been looking at other planets through telescopes for four centuries. But if you really want to get to know a place, there's no substitute for being there. And in the past decade, more than 20 spacecraft have ventured into the deepest reaches of our solar system.*check out Photo Gallery*
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Freaky New Shark with a Sex Organ on its Forehead Posted: 2 months ago by equinox
A new ghostshark species has been identified off the coast of Southern California, and it’s darker and weirder than any shark we know. The purplish black ancient relative of the modern shark comes packed with a suite of odd features that give its taxonomical family the name chimaera, after the mythical beast made from the parts of many animals.
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The Cause of Illnesses and Diseases All in Your Head? Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
The main premise of the New Agers is that our thoughts create our reality—positive or negative. So, by extension, our thoughts make us sick or well. On an elementary level, that seems easy enough to accept. After all, we all know people who are stuck in a quagmire of self-pity, depression, and anger who exhibit physical symptoms that mirror their mental state
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Woman implanted with the wrong embryo Posted: 2 months ago by nateebiinature
It is supposed to the happiest news a couple can get, especially a couple who have difficulty conceiving and carrying babies. The in vitro fertilization procedure had been a success: Carolyn Savage was pregnant.
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Get A Flu Shot or You're Fired! Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
The New York State Health Department is now requiring mandatory seasonal and swine flu vaccinations for all hospital, home health and hospice workers. No other state or city agency in America has such a requirement, and a coalition of local health care workers unions are considering filing a lawsuit to block it.
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Project ‘Gaydar’ Posted: 2 months ago by suebe
At MIT, an experiment identifies which students are gay, raising new questions about online privacy.
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So maybe Mars is not red because of ancient water... Posted: 2 months ago by Ankabout
Scientists have found another reason for Mars appearing red. For a long time scientists hypothesized that it must be 'rust' coloring, but they now have an alternate explanation.
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Paralyzed Rats Walk Again Posted: 2 months ago by proverb
A three-pronged approach to treating spinal cord injuries allowed paralyzed rats to walk without receiving signals from the brain.
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Why are we the naked ape? Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
Right from the start of modern evolutionary science, why humans are hairless has been controversial. "No one supposes," wrote Charles Darwin in The Descent of Man, "that the nakedness of the skin is any direct advantage to man: his body, therefore, cannot have been divested of hair through natural selection."
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Hundreds of volcanoes could cause 'well overdue' eruption in Australia Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
As if bushfires, drought and floods aren't enough, Australians have now been warned to watch out for volcanoes.
A scientist has warned an eruption is "well overdue" and says there are hundreds of volcanoes that could cause trouble, from South Australia and Victoria through to Queensland.
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Tokyo Scientists: Living in the city affects tits Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
Just as humans speak louder in noisy locations, great tits likely avoid low-pitched tones so that their calls will carry further, said the researchers, who will present their findings at an Ornithological Society of Japan's conference that began on Saturday in the Hokkaido Prefecture city of Hakodate.
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genetically engineered dandelions ooze rubber Posted: 2 months ago by kakana
If you pop the head off a dandelion, white sap oozes freely from the wound for about a second.
But if you pop the head off the genetically engineered variety, the sap oozes for minutes, producing five times more latex than from the average dandelion.
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The Deepest Links Posted: 2 months ago by 2manyusernames
Most people can see and most textbooks point out the evolutionary similarity between a human arm, a dolphin's fin, and horse's leg. Insect legs, lacking bones are far different. Both type of limbs evolved independently of each other. However scientists are finding there is more homogeneity between the two evolutionary paths and similar seemingly disparate features than we thought.
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7 Solid Health Tips That No Longer Apply Posted: 2 months ago by Bornbad
Are you taking a daily aspirin or multivitamin to stay healthy? Avoiding eggs and choosing no-cholesterol margarine over butter? Convinced that jogging will ultimately kill your knees? Advice that was once considered gospel truth among the medical community is now being questioned.
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What our Universe does when no one is looking Posted: 2 months ago by hoosker
Many years ago a teacher asked me, "Hoosker, if a tree fell in the forest, and no one was there, would it make a sound?"
After several minutes of contemplating the question I replied "Yes, but only if you made me aware of it falling. If you hadn't told me about it, then it actually never would have existed, then No."
Turns out, I may have been on to something.
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Mini T.Rex Could Be Missing Link Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Some scientists believed the T.Rex evolved to its enormous size, then its arms shrank, when they were no longer needed. A new discovery though, shows that the tiny-armed killing machine may have evolved from a much smaller killing-machine-with-tiny-arms.
(As a special bonus, check out the religious debating going on in the comments.)
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Monkeys Cured of Color Blindness Posted: 2 months ago by Bingo
Two male squirrel monkeys were given gene therapy and now the normally color blind animals are able to distinguish between shades of red and green in color vision tests. In normal situations, female squirrel monkeys can see a full range of colors, but males cannot see red or green.
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The King of Bottle Openers Posted: 2 months ago by davethefish
1001 (ish) ways to open a bottle of beer. I've tried about 4...
Site is German, but so are some of the best beers
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