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Boredom Is Really About Stress
Boredom has more to do with stress than with our seemingly boring surroundings a new study has concluded. Researchers at York University in Toronto found that by framing their research in terms of the...
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The Problem With Psychics Meddling With Missing Person Investigations
Harsha Maddula, a Northwestern University pre-medical student from Long Island, N.Y., went missing Sept. 22, last seen leaving an off-campus party in Illinois. Police and volunteer searchers were...
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BUSTED: Here's Proof That The 'Gospel Of Jesus's Wife' Is Fake
It's been fairly clear for weeks that the papyrus fragment known as the "gospel of Jesus's wife" was a modern fake, assembled from phrases found in real gnostic gospels and in particular the Gospel of...
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A California Businessman Has Attempted The World's Largest Geoengineering...
A controversial American businessman dumped around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate into the Pacific Ocean as part of a geoengineering scheme off the west coast of Canada in July, a Guardian investigation...
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Sesame Street Is One Of The Only TV Shows That Is Actually Good For Kids
Television has a bad side. According to a report from the University of Michigan, the average American child has seen 16,000 murders on TV by age 18. Indeed, programs explicitly designed for kids...
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11 Creative Breakthroughs That People Had In Their Sleep
You know what visions I get in my dreams? Visions of falling off of buildings (and doing the full body spasm thing when I hit the ground). These 11 people, on the other hand, had dreams that changed...
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Prolonged Use Of The 'Cuddle Hormone' Can Lead To Anti-Social Behavior
First off, this study on a molecule tied to social interaction was conducted in animals. So I’m supposed to turn on the siren and the flashing red light here to let you know that the headline you just...
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This Is Why Your Voice Sounds So Weird On A Recording
Reader Christah wrote into ask, “Why do our voices sound different to us than they do to other people/on recordings?” For many of us, there are few things more painful than hearing a recording of our...
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These Are The Most Outrageous Phobias You've Never Heard Of
We’ve all heard of arachnophobia, claustrophobia and other well-known phobias, but there are hundreds fear of somethings out there that you probably haven’t heard of. Fear not (get it), we’re hear to...
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During The Debate Obama And Romney Couldn't Control Their Primate-Like...
The more open, town-hall format of the second Presidential debate on Tuesday (Oct. 16) allowed the candidates to stand up to confront one another and the moderator, something not possible during the...
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Pharmacy Poisons Hundreds With Deadly Fungal Meningitis
As a national public health crisis develops across the country due to an outbreak of fungal meningitis, lawyers in Minnesota have filed a class action against the company that compounded, or mixed,...
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Study Suggests That Yearly Physicals Aren't Necessary
Even when healthy, some people religiously head to the doctor every year for a physical exam, which is often covered by health insurance. But a new review from Danish researchers concludes there is...
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One Personality Trait That Makes For A Successful President
During the candidate debates this month, one of the questions that television viewers will ask themselves is whether Barack Obama or Mitt Romney has the right stuff — Does either man appear...
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Our Moon Formed When A Mars-Sized Object Smashed Into The Earth
Water on the moon boiled away in massive quantities in a cataclysmic evaporation event during the moon's birth, bolstering the theory that a Mars-sized body collided with the Earth to form its only...
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This Massive Monster Once Ruled Ancient Oceans
It's official: A giant, marine reptile that roamed the seas roughly 150 million years ago is a new species, researchers say. The animal, now named Pliosaurus funkei, spanned about 40 feet (12 meters)...
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What It's Like To Work At CERN In Switzerland
Glenn Starkman has traded his comfortable life in unexpectedly wonderful Cleveland (Heights), Ohio for the excitement and alpine scenery of global diplomatic and particle physics capital Geneva,...
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Injections Of Young Blood Can Reverse Some Effects Of Aging
It is rumoured that the late Kim Jong-il would inject himself with blood from healthy young virgins in a bid to slow the ageing process. Remarkably, the North Korean dictator might have been onto...
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Saturn's Oddball Moons Created In Violent Collision
Saturn's icy medium-size moons were born when a few much bigger satellites collided to form the ringed planet's huge moon Titan, a new study suggests. The Saturn system started out with a family of...
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These Features Make Earth Perfect For Supporting Life
The closest star system to our own made headlines on Tuesday (Oct. 16) with the announcement that it hosts a planet about the mass of Earth — a tantalizing discovery so close, astronomically speaking,...
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Deadly Octopus Says 'Don't Touch' With Bright Blue Warning Signal
The diminutive blue-ringed octopus (Hapalochlaena lunulata) looks like a sweet, possibly even fantastical creature. Often measuring less than 20 centimeters long and covered with dozens of bright blue...
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