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Why Booze Makes You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy
Daven Hiskey runs the wildly popular interesting fact website Today I Found Out. To subscribe to his “Daily Knowledge” newsletter, click here.Here's something tailgaters, ice skaters, skiers and other...
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Global Warming Is Changing Life In the US
WASHINGTON (AP) — Global warming is already changing America from sea to rising sea and is affecting how Americans live, a massive new federally commissioned report says.A special panel of scientists...
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Why Popcorn Pops
First off, popcorn isn’t just any old corn. It’s a cultivated strain of flint corn known as zea mays everta. Its kernel is also a whole grain—it consists of the bran (the hull or outer covering), the...
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Everyone Needs To Accept The Facts About Climate Change
Unfortunately, climate change has become a political issue that is too often distilled down and divided into ideological camps.It is used to rally troops and discredit opposing parties, to further...
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After 23 Years Of Work Scientists Have Finally Obtained Liquid Water From An...
Break out the vodka. The first confirmed sample of water from the subsurface Lake Vostok in Antarctica has been retrieved.Almost a year ago, in February 2012 Russian scientists and engineers drilled to...
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Why Astronauts Can't Cry In Space
In May 2011, astronaut Andrew Feustel, in the midst of a seven-hour spacewalk, got something in his eye.Feustel and fellow astronaut Mike Fincke had just finished running power cables from the U.S....
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5 Ways To Avoid Getting The Flu At Work
With one of the worst flu seasons in history under way, it is critical employees take the necessary steps to avoid getting themselves, or others, sick.A recent study found that 84 percent of employed...
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The Milky Way Could Be Much Smaller Than We Thought
The Milky Way galaxy, home of Earth's solar system, may actually be only half as massive as currently thought, scientists say.Stars in the far outer reaches of the Milky Way, between 260,000 and...
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Ancient Indians 'Broke Australian Isolation 4,000 Years Ago'
Ancient Indians migrated to Australia and mixed with Aborigines 4,000 years ago, bringing the dingo's ancestor with them, according to new research that re-evaluates the continent's long isolation...
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Harvard Scholar Blames Climate Change Inaction On Environmental Groups
A Harvard academic has put the blame squarely for America's failure to act on climate change on environmental groups. She also argues that there is little prospect Barack Obama will put climate change...
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Iran Is Going To Try To Send A Live Monkey Into Space Again
Iran will try again to send a live monkey into space after a previous attempt failed in 2011, media reports said on Tuesday quoting the space chief, who gave a launch date of before mid-February."The...
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More Than 3,500 US Weather Records Were Smashed In 2012
News reports in the past two weeks have noted that 2012 was the warmest year ever recorded in the U.S. Today we learn that 3,527 monthly weather records were broken in 2012, according to the Natural...
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Star Wars And Star Trek Got Warp Speed Totally Wrong
The science fiction vision of stars flashing by as streaks when spaceships travel faster than light isn't what the scene would actually look like, a team of physics students says.Instead, the view out...
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Chimps Know What's Fair And What Isn't
Humans aren't the only ones who cry "no fair." In a classic test of fairness called the ultimatum game, apes will dole out an equitable share of their bananas — and when they don't, their partners will...
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Your Facebook Posts Are More Memorable Than Your Face
The fleeting status updates you post on Facebook might leave a more lasting impression than you think. New research shows that people are much more likely to remember the text from Facebook posts than...
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Brazilian Bikini Waxes Blamed For Near Extinction Of Pubic Lice
Pity the poor pubic louse. Every few years, a story comes along predicting its demise, most recently a Bloomberg article that blames the increasing number of women – and men – who remove their pubic...
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Women Who Eat More Berries Have A Lower Risk For Heart Attack
Regularly eating lots of strawberries and blueberries may be good for women's hearts, a new study suggests.The results show that women who ate high amounts of compounds called anthocyanins — most...
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We've Been Fighting Forest Fires Wrong For 100 Years
Australia is burning. Extreme heat and drought during the country's summer wildfire season have helped fierce winds spark about 100 bushfires across southeastern Australia.Sound familiar?2012 was...
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Climate Change Is Making Flowers Bloom Earlier Than Ever
The warmest springs on record caused flowers to bloom at their earliest dates in decades at two historic sites, according to new research.The findings, published online today (Jan. 16) in the journal...
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The Cassini Spacecraft Captured An Unprecedented Storm On Saturn
Just as regions of our planet have monsoon season, or tornado season, so too does Saturn have its own stormy season.Once every Saturn year or so—which corresponds to roughly 30 Earth years—a giant,...
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