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If you have ever taken a psychology class in college, or even high school you are probably quite familiar with the bible of mental disorders which was called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM: DSM IV way back when I owned one). New entries into the manual tend to be a bit [...]

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If you follow the claims of Global Warming at all there seem to be new factors jumping into the fray everyday. Mostly humans in some shape, or form, but I bet you never considered ancient hunters as a source of Apocalypse. Hunters who took out the last of the whoolly mammoths are being held accountable [...]

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If you watch enough Forensic Files, CSI, or any other A&E murder investigation show, you most definitely have noticed that arsenic is the favorite poison of housewives and husbands. Does arsenic serve a possible use for humans though? Most definitely. A form of arsenic called arsenic trioxide has been used as a therapy for a [...]

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A funny study recently suggests that great apes like to play tag too. A paper published in the

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If escaping a predator in the wild wasn’t hard enough…they are evolving into hunters like humans. Like humans who use all sorts of trickery to fool animals like duck calls, wild cats have been observed making monkey calls to lure and trap their intended prey. Until now the legend of cats pretending to be monkeys [...]

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Unless you have lived in a concrete jungle your entire life where you have never even seen the countryside, you have been amazed by the phenomenon known as the Firefly at some point in your life. Blinking green lights in the night have entertained kids for ages. It was always a curious sight and we [...]

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This may sound like a good thing for someone. I guess it may be for the person that originally got fine $675,000 for illegally downloading and sharing THIRTY songs. Judge Nancy Gertner on Friday cut the damage award to $67,500 — three times the statutory minimum — and said the new amount “not only adequately [...]

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More evidence that short sample sizes can be skewed to look like anything. Oh wait…did I just say that? This is always my first thought when I read a title such as this. That the sample size is way too small to draw very conclusive results. I don’t disregard them mind you, but I definitely [...]

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Besides being the first to take flight at night with a solar powered plane Solar Impulse, whose wingspan is the same as an Airbus A340, was also the longest and highest flight in the history of solar aviation, organizers said. The flight flew 26 hours and 9 minutes, powered only by solar energy stored during [...]

Filed under: Science by JMH
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