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12.03.09
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Reasons to Flee the Modern World

It's making you depressed and infertile
By M. Farbman Posted 02.05.2009 at 11:01 am 3 Comments

Researchers found that teenagers who watched more television had greater odds of becoming depressed. Interestingly, there was no similar correlation between watching videos or playing computer games and depression. Ironically, I first read this news on a TV screen in an elevator. I felt kind of bad about that afterward.

Also in today's links: a new theory about infertility, solace in God, and sea sponges in Oman.

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Artificial Wombs

Will we grow babies outside their mothers’ bodies?
By Gretchen Reynolds Posted 08.01.2005 at 1:00 pm 3 Comments

A fetus lives in a world of bubbles. In its earliest days, it’s shaped like one. Later, it floats in one—the squishy, enveloping amniotic sac. And eventually, if all goes well, the fetus releases one bubble of fluid, then another and another, like smoke signals, as it puckers and swallows and floats in the womb. It

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