Vitals - Nicotine patch may help improve memory, study finds

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:20 AM EST (msnbc.com)

Nicotine may help tune up the brains of seniors suffering from mild memory loss, a new study shows. Researchers found that seniors suffering from mild cognitive impairment, or MCI, could boost their memories with a nicotine patch, according to the study published in Neurology. …

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Eighth retraction marks slide of lung cancer work - Health - Cancer - msnbc.com

Seeded on Tue Jan 10, 2012 5:02 AM EST (msnbc.com)

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a reminder of how much a once-heralded area of lung cancer research has crumbled, a former Duke oncologist and his colleagues issued their eighth study retraction late last week. The retraction is the eighth of what Duke officials said this past …

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Climategate Bombshell: Did U.S. Gov't Help Hide Climate Data? | Fox News

Seeded on Sat Dec 17, 2011 6:18 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

Are your tax dollars helping hide global warming data from the public? Internal emails leaked as part of “Climategate 2.0” indicate the answer may be "Yes." The original Climategate emails -- correspondence stolen from servers at a research facility in the U.K.

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'Walking' Fish Prompts Evolution Rethink | Fox News

Seeded on Wed Dec 14, 2011 5:36 AM EST (FOXNews.com)

Air-breathing fish that can hop and walk across the floor on their fins hint that walking may have evolved underwater before such animals began migrating on to land, scientists find. The distant ancestors of humans and all mammals, reptiles, birds, amphibians and other four-l …

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The Evolution of Education in America.

Mon Dec 12, 2011 10:50 AM EST

In the 16th, 17th and 18th Century the populace was illiterate, basically ZERO tax dollars were being expended on education and the majority of America’s populace remained illiterate and uneducated. Starting in the late 18th and continuing up thru the mid 20th Century (1960 …

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Study: Humans were catching tuna 42K years ago | ajc.com

Seeded on Fri Nov 25, 2011 5:19 AM EST (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)

LOS ANGELES — Humans were expert deep-sea fishermen as far back as 42,000 years ago, hauling in tuna, sharks and barracudas, new research suggests. Fish appeared in the human diet about 1.9 million years ago.

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Alien abductions may be vivid dreams: study - Technology & science - Science - LiveScience - msnbc.com

Seeded on Thu Oct 27, 2011 5:43 AM EDT (msnbc.com)

Researchers say they have conducted "the first experiment to ever prove that close encounters with UFOs and extraterrestrials are a product of the human mind." In a sleep study by the Out-Of-Body Experience Research Center in Los Angeles, 20 volunteers were instructed to perfo …

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Cooking may be 1.9m years old, say scientists | Science | The Guardian

Seeded on Tue Aug 23, 2011 10:04 AM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)

The advent of cooking was one of the most crucial episodes in the human story, allowing our ancestors to broaden their diet and extract more calories from their food. Because it softened food, it also spelled an end to the days of endless chewing.

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A View of How the Human Mind Works

Thu Nov 4, 2010 12:23 PM EDT

Preface Now what I’m about to say will befuddle and confuse most of you, ……. and at first you won’t believe me …… because you may have never ever heard or read anything similar before now.

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Sixteen Concerned Scientists: No Need to Panic About Global Warming - WSJ.com
Source: Wall Street Journal
Incontrovertible proof seems a little strong after you read the following!! Editor's Note: The following has been signed by the 16 scientists listed at the end of the article:
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Low IQ & Conservative Beliefs Linked to Prejudice
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Neanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools, anthropologists discover
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Those plucky Neandertals seem to be popping up everywhere! Well, it appears that they are we, and we are they.
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At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways
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LOS ANGELES — No one expects to stumble across a cache of Picasso’s works in the middle of a desert.
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The code of life opens a new universe but mystery still surrounds the bad, the brainy and the beautiful
Source: The Age
This article provides a great high-level overview of genomics, including its implications for everything from human health to agriculture. It also hints at the demand for computing power and ingenuity that is needed to meet these promises.
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