Jimmy's Interesting Things: 2015

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> On May 13, 2015, at 5:27 AM, Jimmy Akin <jimmyakin01@gmail.com> wrote:
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> http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/05/the_proper_way_to_drink_caffeine.html
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RE: You're Drinking Caffeine All Wrong: How That Daily Coffee Ends Up Making You More Tired | RealClearScience

I got yer adenosine right here.

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Subject: You're Drinking Caffeine All Wrong: How That Daily Coffee Ends Up Making You More Tired | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/05/the_proper_way_to_drink_caffeine.html

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Hazards Ahead: The Problem With Trigger Warnings, According to the Research - Pacific Standard

http://www.psmag.com/health-and-behavior/hazards-ahead-problem-trigger-warnings-according-research-81946

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You're Drinking Caffeine All Wrong: How That Daily Coffee Ends Up Making You More Tired | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/05/the_proper_way_to_drink_caffeine.html

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Monday, May 11, 2015

BBC - Future - The number glitch that can lead to catastrophe

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150505-the-numbers-that-lead-to-disaster

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Wednesday, April 29, 2015

Women's Sex Drive Rivals Men's | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2015/04/29/womens_sex_drive_rivals_mens_109204.html

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Monday, April 27, 2015

Up To 90% Of Your Perception Could Be Made Up Purely By The Brain - braindecoder

https://www.braindecoder.com/up-to-90-of-your-perception-could-be-made-up-purely-by-the-brain-1104633927.html

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Thursday, April 23, 2015

You can't 'outrun' obesity: Study says exercise doesn't help weight loss

http://mashable.com/2015/04/23/obesity-exercise-uk-study/

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The search for planets beyond Pluto | Cosmos

https://cosmosmagazine.com/space/search-planets-beyond-pluto

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We are not edging up to a mass extinction – Stewart Brand – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/why-extinction-is-not-the-problem/

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

There’s never been a safer time to be a kid in America - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2015/04/14/theres-never-been-a-safer-time-to-be-a-kid-in-america/

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Monday, April 20, 2015

How we got duped into believing milk is necessary for healthy bones - Vox

http://www.vox.com/2015/4/19/8447883/milk-health-benefit

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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Why don’t our brains explode at movie cuts? – Jeff Zacks – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/psychology/why-dont-our-brains-explode-at-movie-cuts/

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Saturday, April 18, 2015

Reason Is Larger Than Science | Big Think

http://bigthink.com/errors-we-live-by/reason-is-larger-than-science

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This West Virginia Town Has Gone Radio Silent | Popular Science

http://www.popsci.com/achieve-radio-silence-west-virginia-town

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Friday, April 17, 2015

Why Knuckles Crack : Shots - Health News : NPR

http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2015/04/15/399636388/why-knuckles-crack

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Thursday, April 16, 2015

Some Music Is Inherently Bad—But People Can Be Convinced Otherwise - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

http://m.nautil.us/blog/some-music-is-inherently-badbut-people-can-be-convinced-otherwise

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Saturday, April 11, 2015

Fat-Fighting Bacteria Show the Microbiome’s Therapeutic Potential | MIT Technology Review

A Shakespeare Play You’ve Never Heard Of - Pacific Standard

http://www.psmag.com/books-and-culture/a-shakespeare-play-youve-never-heard-of

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Serotonin and the science of sex | Science News

https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/serotonin-and-science-sex

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Can life exist on a planet without a star? – Sean Raymond – Aeon

http://aeon.co/magazine/science/can-life-exist-on-a-planet-without-a-star/

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Selfish Shellfish Cells Cause Contagious Clam Cancer – Phenomena: Not Exactly Rocket Science

http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2015/04/09/selfish-shellfish-cells-cause-contagious-clam-cancer/

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Featured Content on Myspace

https://myspace.com/?2mobile=true

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Friday, April 10, 2015

Like, What's with Saying 'Like' Like All the Time? | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/04/like_whats_with_saying_like_like_all_the_time.html

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Exotic atom struggles to find its place in the periodic table : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/exotic-atom-struggles-to-find-its-place-in-the-periodic-table-1.17275

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Wednesday, April 8, 2015

I'm sorry. This has supervillain potential written all over it.

Intel CEO controls a swarm of robot spiders with gestures

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Aliens Are Enormous, Science Suggests

http://www.newsweek.com/aliens-are-enormous-science-suggests-319448

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

How Europeans evolved white skin | Science/AAAS | News

She Takes Off A Doll’s Face With Nail Polish Remover. When You See The Result You’ll Want One! - LittleThings.com

WATCH: He Was Born Without Eyes, But When They Put Him In Front Of A Piano... Wow [VIDEO]

Electrifying shots of Mexican volcanic eruption | Daily Mail Online

Science explains why hipsters grow beards - Telegraph

Thursday, April 2, 2015

Is this ET? Mystery of strange radio bursts from space - space - 31 March 2015 - New Scientist

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22630153.600-is-this-et-mystery-of-strange-radio-bursts-from-space.html?full=true#.VR2EaYpHanM

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Fake peer review: Scientific journals publish fraudulent, plagiarized, or nonsense papers.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/science/2015/04/fake_peer_review_scientific_journals_publish_fraudulent_plagiarized_or_nonsense.html

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Gary Dahl, Inventor of the Pet Rock, Dies at 78 - NYTimes.com

Did arsenic poisoning make gods limp? › Dr Karl's Great Moments In Science (ABC Science)

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2015/03/31/4206279.htm

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Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Shocking Discovery: Egypt's 'Mona Lisa' May Be a Fake

http://m.livescience.com/50309-egyptian-mona-lisa-may-be-fake.html

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Anglo Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA - health - 30 March 2015 - New Scientist

Anglo Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA - health - 30 March 2015 - New Scientist:

Zoologger: Hollow marine monsters as big as whales - life - 20 March 2015 - New Scientist

Anglo Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA - health - 30 March 2015 - New Scientist

Anglo Saxon remedy kills hospital superbug MRSA - health - 30 March 2015 - New Scientist: Zoologger: Hollow marine monsters as big as whales

How Not to Catch a Cold on a Plane - NYTimes.com

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/03/31/science/how-not-to-catch-a-cold-on-a-plane.html?ref=science&_r=1&referrer=

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Friday, March 27, 2015

Physicists Describe New Class of Dyson Sphere | MIT Technology Review

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/536171/physicists-describe-new-class-of-dyson-sphere/

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Extrasolar Planets Are, Almost, Everywhere

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Study shows humans are evolving faster than previously thought | Science | The Guardian

The Rise of the Mile-High Building -- NYMag

Researchers Predict ‘Imminent Collapse’ Of Universe After Period Of Rapid Expansion � CBS Sacramento

The wonderful GIFs, illustrations, and animations of Julian Glander - Boing Boing

http://boingboing.net/2015/03/25/the-wonderful-gifs-illustrati.html

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Saturday, March 21, 2015

Study measures the foul smell of fat bias - Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/study-measures-foul-smell-fat-bias-190523649.html

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Friday, March 20, 2015

What I Saw At the Conspiracy Theory Conference - Hit & Run : Reason.com

http://reason.com/blog/2015/03/18/what-i-saw-at-the-conspiracy-theory-conf

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015

Eight Apple Features You Probably Never Use | Re/code

https://recode.net/2015/03/18/eight-apple-features-you-probably-never-use/

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Ummmm... Here are Seven Facts You... uh... May Have Not Known About 'Um' and 'Uh' | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/03/x_things_you_didnt_know_about_um_and_uh.html

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LA Times - Food industry waging a bitter battle over proposal on added-sugar labels

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-83075856/

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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Ancient Receipt Proves Egyptian Taxes Were Worse Than Yours

http://www.livescience.com/50139-ancient-egyptian-tax-receipt.html

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Monday, March 16, 2015

Striking Cosmic Gold — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/striking-cosmic-gold-1dff9b27d587

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Ask Ethan #79: The tiniest Neutron Star — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-79-the-tiniest-neutron-star-e5808e8fa328

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Being Stabbed with a Mucus Dagger Is Not Even the Worst Part of Snail Sex - Inkfish

Friday, March 13, 2015

Study Finds There Are Too Many Studies « CBS Sacramento

http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2015/03/12/study-finds-there-are-too-many-studies/

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In Animal Kingdom, Blood Comes in a Rainbow of Colors

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/03/150312-blood-antarctica-octopus-animals-science-colors/

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Dietary emulsifiers impact the mouse gut microbiota promoting colitis and metabolic syndrome : Nature : Nature Publishing Group

The world's most trafficked animal: the pangolin

Music for Cats

Teyus Music LLC

Thursday, March 5, 2015

How to Turn Your Dog Off - Issue 22: Slow - Nautilus

http://m.nautil.us/issue/22/slow/how-to-turn-your-dog-off

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The Weird World of Standard Reference Materials, From Peanut Butter to Whale Blubber | Science | Smithsonian

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/weird-world-nist-standard-reference-materials-peanut-butter-whale-blubber-180954379/

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Creative Genius Driven by Distraction: Northwestern University News

http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2015/03/creative-genius-driven-by-distraction.html

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Genetically speaking, mammals are more like their fathers — News Room - UNC Health Care

https://news.unchealthcare.org/news/2015/march/genetically-speaking-we-are-all-more-like-our-fathers

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015

The secret, smelly science of handshakes - The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/03/04/the-secret-smelly-science-of-handshakes/

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Saturday, February 28, 2015

Pluto May Become a Planet Again | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2015/02/28/pluto_may_become_a_planet_again_109107.html

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Friday, February 27, 2015

Pharaoh Brutally Killed in Battle, Analysis Shows : Discovery News

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/pharaoh-brutally-killed-in-battle-analysis-shows-150225.htm

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Psychology Journal Bans Significance Testing « Science-Based Medicine

http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/psychology-journal-bans-significance-testing/

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Thursday, February 26, 2015

Strange lights on dwarf planet Ceres have scientists perplexed

http://mashable.com/2015/02/25/strange-lights-dwarf-planet-ceres/

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Food preservatives linked to obesity and gut disease : Nature News & Comment

http://www.nature.com/news/food-preservatives-linked-to-obesity-and-gut-disease-1.16984

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Wednesday, February 25, 2015

What If Other Human Species Had Survived? | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2015/02/25/what_if_other_human_species_survived_109102.html

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The 'Monty Hall' Problem: Everybody Is Wrong | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/articles/2015/02/25/the_monty_hall_problem_everybody_is_wrong_109101.html

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Monday, February 23, 2015

New Research Pinpoints Crucial Protein That Keeps The Heart Beating On Time

http://somvweb.som.umaryland.edu/absolutenm/templates/?a=3003&z=41

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How Can Space Travel Faster Than The Speed Of Light?

Saturday, February 21, 2015

Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions | FiveThirtyEight

http://fivethirtyeight.com/features/your-brain-is-primed-to-reach-false-conclusions/

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Friday, February 20, 2015

Forget “Earth-Like”—We’ll First Find Aliens on Eyeball Planets - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

http://m.nautil.us/blog/forget-earth_likewell-first-find-aliens-on-eyeball-planets

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These Houses Look Like Faces | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/02/these_houses_look_like_faces.html

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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Rick Berman Talks 18 Years of Trek In Extensive Oral History | TrekMovie.com

http://trekmovie.com/2009/08/26/rick-berman-talks-18-years-of-trek-in-extensive-oral-history/

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Could Analyzing How Humans Think Make Better Video Games? | Popular Science

http://www.popsci.com/new-tool-make-better-video-games?dom=tw&src=SOC

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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

70,000 Years Ago, Another Star Flew by the Edge of the Solar System | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2015/02/70000_years_ago_another_star_flew_by_the_edge_of_the_solar_system.html

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Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Climate affects which types of languages evolved where. - Seriously, Science?

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/seriouslyscience/2015/02/12/climate-affects-types-languages-evolved/#.VOPwIoY76nM

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Monday, February 16, 2015

Does Science Need Falsifiability? - The Nature of Reality — The Nature of Reality | PBS

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/blogs/physics/2015/02/falsifiability/

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When Time Flows Backwards | Motherboard

http://motherboard.vice.com/read/when-the-future-helps-determine-the-past?trk_source=homepage-lede

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

6 Strangest Hearts in the Animal Kingdom

http://m.livescience.com/49795-strange-animal-hearts.html

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Friday, February 13, 2015

'Mirage Planets' May Complicate Search for Extraterrestrial Life

http://m.space.com/28531-mirage-alien-planets.html

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The Two Big Bangs — Starts With A Bang! — Medium

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/the-two-big-bangs-1493194f5cd9

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Thursday, February 12, 2015

Dinos Got High, Oldest Grass Fungus Fossil Hints

http://m.livescience.com/49759-oldest-fossils-grass-ergot-fungus.html

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6 of the Most Audacious Science Hoaxes Ever

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/02/pictures/150211-science-hoaxes-history/#/newbigfoot_88572_600x450.jpg

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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Turd transplant leads to rapid weight-gain and obesity - Boing Boing

Turd transplant leads to rapid weight-gain and obesity - Boing Boing: Youtube ditches Flash, but it hardly matters

The Most Abundant Material on Earth Has Been Seen for the First Time

What Are The Colored Circles on Food Packages? | Mental Floss

Study Shows All Languages Skew Towards Happiness | Mental Floss

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

Girl Born Pregnant With Twin Fetuses

Pseudo-anglicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Pseudo-anglicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: False friend

What's next in diets: Chili peppers? | EurekAlert! Science News

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-02/bs-wni020415.php

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Are marriages stronger when one spouse is dominant? - Telegraph

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/11397999/Are-marriages-stronger-when-one-spouse-is-dominant.html

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Sunday, February 8, 2015

ALIENS are surely AMONG US: Average star has TWO potentially Earth-like worlds • The Register

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/02/05/helloo_aliens_average_star_has_two_potentially_earthlike_habitable_worlds/

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Saturday, February 7, 2015

10 Things People Once Complained Would Ruin The English Language

http://io9.com/10-things-people-once-complained-would-ruin-the-english-1684240298

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Thursday, February 5, 2015

Newfound 'Gospel of the Lots of Mary' Discovered in Ancient Text

http://m.livescience.com/49673-newfound-ancient-gospel-deciphered.html

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'Fat' May Be the Sixth Taste | RealClearScience

http://www.realclearscience.com/journal_club/2015/02/05/fat_may_be_the_sixth_taste_109064.html

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Monday, February 2, 2015

How Weight Training Can Help You Keep the Weight Off - NYTimes.com

Thursday, January 29, 2015

25 Mind-Twisting Optical Illusion Paintings By Rob Gonsalves | Bored Panda

Monday, January 26, 2015

The enemy within: People who hear voices in their heads are being encouraged to talk back - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent

Friday, January 23, 2015

The Benefits of a Lunch Hour Walk - NYTimes.com

Asteroids Had Magnetic Fields That Could Have Protected Hitchhiking Lifeforms - Popular Mechanics

Mom Was Right: You'll Catch a Cold From Being Cold

Thursday, January 22, 2015

CNN: Scientists upload a worm's mind into a Lego robot

http://cnn.it/1J7YWQd

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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Ancient scrolls scorched by Vesuvius may be read again - Yahoo News

http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-scrolls-scorched-vesuvius-may-read-again-162718464.html;_ylt=AwrSyCTCjr5UIUoAWsPQtDMD

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Japanese androids hold news conference, chat with baby droids

http://www.techworld.com.au/article/564265/japanese-androids-hold-news-conference-chat-baby-droids/

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Deadly sea snail uses weaponised insulin to make its prey sluggish | Science | The Guardian

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/19/venomous-sea-snail-insulin-prey-conus-geographus

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Monday, January 19, 2015

Liberace Is Going Back On Tour...As A Hologram - Forbes

http://www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2015/01/18/liberace-is-going-back-on-tour-as-a-hologram/?

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AI Has Arrived, and That Really Worries the World's Brightest Minds | WIRED

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/ai-arrived-really-worries-worlds-brightest-minds/

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Sunday, January 18, 2015

Mummy Mask May Reveal Oldest Known Gospel

http://m.livescience.com/49489-oldest-known-gospel-mummy-mask.html

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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Scientists Seek Religious Experience -- in the Brain | Sci-Tech Today

Galactic zombies roam the cosmos and refuse to die - space - 14 January 2015 - New Scientist

How Exercise Keeps Us Young - NYTimes.com

Teen with Cotard's Syndrome spent three years thinking she was DEAD | Daily Mail Online

Friday, January 16, 2015

When you lose weight, where does the fat go? Most of the mass is breathed out as carbon dioxide, study shows -- ScienceDaily

Closing your eyes boosts memory recall, new study finds -- ScienceDaily

They See Flow Signals: Researchers Identify Nature of Fish’s “Sixth Sense”

http://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/01/12/they-see-flow-signals-researchers-identify-nature-of-fishs-sixth-sense.html

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The mystery of shellshock solved: Scientists identify the unique brain injury caused by war - News - The Independent

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/the-mystery-of-shellshock-solved-scientists-identify-the-unique-brain-injury-caused-by-war-9981443.html

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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Slashdot

http://m.slashdot.org/story/212223

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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

What's Up With That: How Squinting Helps You See Better | WIRED

“Songs About Giant Isopods” | Pagan Wanderer Lu's Blog

“Songs About Giant Isopods” | Pagan Wanderer Lu's Blog: music purely because they were essentially instrumentals, I wanted to see what people came up with lyrically. Who knew someone would use Isopods as an analogy for a failing relationship? Or draw a link between them and TV’s Gladiators? Giant woodlice stealing your gameboy? Then there’s Tom Lee’s frankly baffling contribution. As I