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Cellphone users may drive some of you crazy. On the road they are the cause of accidents, but anywhere in public they are just plain annoying to listen to. Cell phone users irritate so mightily because their background chatter forcibly yanks listeners’ attention away from whatever they’re doing, says psychology graduate student Lauren Emberson of [...]

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The remains of seven children apparently killed in a ritual and buried beneath a 500- to 600-year-old building in Peru’s Cuzco Valley have given scientists new glimpses of the sketchily understood Inca practice of sacrificing select children in elaborate ceremonies. Wonder if they were selected because they couldn’t find a safe fat burner to keep [...]

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Two remarkable new species of horned dinosaurs have been found in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, southern Utah. The giant plant-eaters were inhabitants of the “lost continent” of Laramidia, formed when a shallow sea flooded the central region of North America, isolating the eastern and western portions of the continent for millions of years during the [...]

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First you have to actually believe Moses existed, and that this story actually happened in the first place. Now that we are in fantasy land, let’s see what these fine gentlemen have to say about the parting of the Red Seas via wind. Computer simulations, part of a larger study on how winds affect water, [...]

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IF there was ever a company that you didn’t think made much sense to start making a phone it was probably Facebook. Sure companies like Google have certainly ventured into this arena, but social networking companies are now looking into it? TechCrunch published a story saying “Facebook is building a mobile phone…or rather, they’re building [...]

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We are getting closer and closer to anyone (well anyone with 10s of millions of dollars) to get a ride into space. Boeing Co. plans to offer passengers the chance to fly into space on a craft it is developing for travel in low-Earth orbit, the aerospace company said on Wednesday. The project will be [...]

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The “Asian Unicorn” as it is dubbed in the media is a rare animal that hasn’t been photographed in over 10 years. The saola of Laos and Vietnam was captured recently and photographed. The Government of the Lao People’s Democratic Republic (also known as Laos) announced on September15 that in late August villagers in the [...]

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If you think about it, this is pretty common sense to assume there is a market for selling bull semen. In fact it is quite lucrative. One “harvest” from a bull, after passing inspection, can produce up to 300 doses which according to this article sell for about $10 a dose. The demand for meat [...]

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The old adage of “Money Can’t Buy Love”, or “Happiness” was put to the test in a survey of 1,000 Americans which showed they are overall fairly happy, but more money equals more satisfaction up to a point, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University in New [...]

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Science sure is accurate on this whole global warming thing isn’t it? Every couple of months a new report on how fast the ice is melting is contradicted by the previous reports. That doesn’t mean it isn’t actually happening though so those of you that want to claim this a victory for your anti-global warming [...]

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