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Monsters Of Ohio: Come For The Rabbit, Stay For The Whiskey In The Jar
Depending on your perspective, you may feel like the rabbit got a pretty good deal in Monsters of Ohio.But then your opinion starts to change. Instead of monsters eating people, or subjugating them, t...
Earth Sciences
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Activists Claim Rerouting Ships To Avoid Whales Is Too Much Pollution - Science Says No
Cargo ships don't want to collide with marine animals or anything else any more than the most fervent Greenpeace activist does but governments are told by environmental groups that the fuel use of the...
Life Sciences
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Does Learning New Skills Really Keep Your Brain Young? What Research Shows
Want to keep your brain sharp? The usual advice is to learn a language, take up an instrument or tackle a new subject. The theory is seductive: just as exercise strengthens muscles, mental challenges ...
Medicine
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Global Warming and The Reawakening of Anthrax Spores
Climate change, and the resulting global warming, has led to the melting of glaciers in various parts of the world. In Siberia—specifically in the Yamal-Nenets and Taymyr peninsulas, which were among ...
Physical Sciences
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Forbidden Behavior In Singles Gets A Physics Study
What if the forbidden could be controlled? The green shimmer of the geomagnetic storms we call the Aurora Borealis is due to a quantum jump that physicists call 'forbidden' but it is really only frown...
Social Sciences
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Harvard Medical Had An Obesity Conference - No Doctors Or Scientists Allowed
A hundred years from now, when scholars look at the 2020s, they will be confused why so many people denied basic biology. Our muscles and brains run on energy. We get that energy from food. That you g...
