Our relationship to the natural world is a Ponzi scheme http://tinyurl.com/ltk7we...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 1, 2009 7:48 pm
Patients gather in Boston for the largest clinical study ever of a rare disorder http://tinyurl.com/mqfu8m...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 2, 2009 1:35 am
If you're one of those people whom mosquitoes tend to favor, maybe it's because you aren't sufficiently stressed-out http://tinyurl.com/l32z2d...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 2, 2009 3:54 am
Teetotallers suffer higher levels of depression than drinkers, claims new research http://tinyurl.com/mypmt8...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 2, 2009 3:56 am
Carl Zimmer: Analysis of color-producing molecules discovered in a fossil suggests that an ancient bird had a dark, iridescent sheen ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 3:28 am
Papers suggesting that biotech crops might harm the environment attract a hail of abuse from other scientists. Emily Waltz asks if the critics fight fair ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 3:34 am
Music has great power to alter our emotions — making us happy or sad, agitated or calm. Psychologists have tried in vain to figure out why that happens. Now,...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 3:39 am
Two comprehensive analyses of antidepressant trials have uncovered a dramatic increase in placebo response since the 1980s. One estimated that the so-called...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 3:41 am
Birds with stronger brain asymmetries tend to be brighter http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/902/4...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 3:45 am
Talking to an attractive woman really can make a man lose his mind, according to a new study http://tinyurl.com/m9agr7...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 4, 2009 4:44 am
Each of us has at least 100 new mutations in our DNA, according to research published in the journal Current Biology ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 5, 2009 11:21 am
Claims of sex differences fall apart http://www.newsweek.com/id/214834...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 5, 2009 11:22 am
High blood pressure can make it hard for middle-aged adults to think clearly and remember things, according to a new study ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 6, 2009 3:00 am
New research reveals that Stone Age man was making tools in Europe much earlier than previously believed http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08obaxe.html...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 6, 2009 3:02 am
Richard Dawkins on how humans are related to chimpanzees - and to cheese mites and cherry trees too ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 6, 2009 3:05 am
Activists Criticize California Town for Accepting Gift's Terms That Plot Be Named for Scientist Who Backed Eugenics Movement ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 7, 2009 3:55 am
Why is it so uncomfortable to stand really close to a stranger? Evolution seems to have programmed this discomfort via a brain structure called the amygdalae ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 7, 2009 3:55 am
A new study shows that dogs and young human babies both make the same classic error in a famous psychology experiment — while wolves raised by people do not ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 7, 2009 3:57 am
A cornucopia of drugs will soon be on sale to improve everything from our memories to our trust in others ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 7, 2009 4:00 am
They may simply be getting bad instructions - from you http://www.economist.com/sciencetechnology/displayStory.cfm?story_id=14350157...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 7, 2009 4:03 am
Nicholas Wade: The variants discovered by European scientists account for some 20 percent of the genetic risk of the disease ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 8, 2009 8:04 am
Kids as young as 6 months judge others based on skin color. What's a parent to do? http://www.newsweek.com/id/214989...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 10, 2009 1:10 am
Chimp infants are more in control of their emotions and behaviour than their human counterparts, research suggests http://tinyurl.com/lxnxsv...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 10, 2009 1:11 am
Infections outside the brain may speed memory decline in Alzheimer's disease, UK researchers say http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8241833.stm...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 10, 2009 1:14 am
By relating eye movements to brain activity, researchers have shown that the brain can retrieve memories of past experiences even without conscious...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 10, 2009 1:15 am
Jumping genes may hold key to defeating mould that caused Irish famine http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090909/full/news.2009.893.html...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 10, 2009 1:18 am
Gender, birth spacing and temperament help shape our individual characters, too http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/health/08klas.html...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 11, 2009 1:22 am
A blueberry smoothie at breakfast can stop your powers of concentration waning in the afternoon - and even help fight dementia in the long term, new research...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 11, 2009 1:24 am
US researchers have pinned down new differences in the brain chemistry of people with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) ...
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jmalloynyc
Sep 11, 2009 1:27 am
At a Harvard event on Wednesday, biology giants E. O. Wilson and James Watson described their past rivalry and the role of competition in science ...
