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    Don't Think Bad Thoughts

    By Posted on 12.22.2008 3 Comments

    Also in today's links: "trophy heads," poisoned bodies and more.

    12.23.2008 at 08:49am - Comment by Mr.Sanchez

    Pleading the 5th is going to gain popularity!

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    Smart Guys Have Better Sperm

    By Jaya Jiwatram Posted on 12.8.2008 1 Comments

    Brainiacs now have something besides their intelligence to celebrate; their sperm. The intellectually endowed produce better quality and more mobile sperm, according to a study published in Intelligence and led by Rosalind Arden of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College in England.

    12.21.2008 at 12:15am - Comment by Mr.Sanchez

    I wonder if the this study was bias, considering that a feeble minded person might not participate in this research.

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    The Roots of Upright Walking

    By Posted on 4.24.2008 8 Comments

    Scientists have long been trying to figure out why early humans became bipedal, and one popular explanation has now been crossed off the list of possibilities. There was a popular notion that we started walking upright to free up our arms so we could carry objects, and babies—apes don't need to worry about this because their offspring can cling to them using their hands and feet. It's like a built-in Baby Bjorn. But now University of Manchester researchers say the baby-carrying theory doesn't hold, mainly because supporting an infant on your hip or in your arms is too tiring to have been a legitimate factor in the transition to bipedalism.

    12.21.2008 at 12:12am - Comment by Mr.Sanchez

    considering that evolution is true, then that would imply that we all came from the same first ancestor. Plant life and animal life must also have a link to one another. plants grow upwards to the light source, "The sun?" It is possible that we became bipedal due to this simplest characteristic in our DNA. Why would our ancestors aim for The Sun? warmth, sight, growth into a common goal that connects all kins into one common organism i sometimes refer to life?

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    Shock to the System

    By Posted on 1.22.2008 1 Comments

    For six years after a brutal beating, a 38-year-old man lay in a minimally conscious state, effectively unable to communicate. Then, with the permission of his family, a team of neuroscientists at New Yorkâ€Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical College and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation attempted a last-resort experimental treatment known as deep brain stimulation, or DBS. Using brain scans as a guide, they implanted tiny electrodes deep in the man´s head and wired them to a pacemaker-like device beneath his collarbone.

    12.18.2008 at 09:45am - Comment by Mr.Sanchez

    I am interested in seeing what reaction this process will have when it syncs with "nanotech", i will assume that this path of immortality is a drastic one leading to infertility, concluding to a singular perfected human organism. That outcome is boring.



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