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Prion disease
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 14:50:34 -0700 (PDT)
A New Twist on Prion Disease
By Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
ScienceNOW Daily News
11 June 2009
In mad cow disease, misfolded proteins called prions punch holes in
the brain, eventually destroying it. Inherited prion diseases, which
are rare and passed through families, do the same thing. But it's long
been a puzz ...
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Well would you wear the clothes of a serial killer?
Sat, 13 Jun 2009 02:33:12 -0700 (PDT)
Reason Magazine
Would You Wear a Serial Killer's Sweater?
On jellyfish genes, autism, politics, and how our intuitions lead us
into strange territory.
Katherine Mangu-Ward | June 12, 2009
So, would you wear a serial killer's sweater? No blood spatters or
anything. Heck, let's even say it has been dry cleaned ...
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Zombie neurobiology
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 04:12:53 -0700 (PDT)
http://io9.com/5286145/a-harvard-psychiatrist-explains-zombie-neurobiology ...
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Sleep and the emotional content of memories
Fri, 12 Jun 2009 01:43:40 -0700 (PDT)
Sleep may be important in regulating emotional responses
June 11th, 2009 in Medicine & Health / Health
According to a new study, sleep selectively preserves memories that
are
emotionally salient and relevant to future goals when sleep follows
soon after
learning. Effects persist for as long as four months af ...
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The Impact of the fall of the Soviet Union on Life Satisfaction
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:24:51 -0700 (PDT)
Are socialists happier than capitalists?
June 9th, 2009 in Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Driven by a decline in satisfaction with work life and family life,
overall well-being initially plummeted in countries directly affected
by the fall of the Iron Curtain, reveals an important new study.
The research, f ...
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Culture may depend on numbers; warfare and altruism
Wed, 10 Jun 2009 11:17:47 -0700 (PDT)
Warfare, culture and human evolution
Blood and treasure
Jun 4th 2009
From The Economist print edition
People are altruistic because they are militaristic, and cultured
because they are common. At least that is the message of a couple of
new studies
TWO of the oddest things about people are morality and cult ...
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Isn't domestication a two-way process?
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:16:25 -0700 (PDT)
This article:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608131152.htm
talks about the genetic changes domestication makes. I think this just
what was shown in the Russian fox-dog experiment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tame_Silver_Fox
So it's probably true.
Surely, though, humans are the ultimat ...
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Socrates asked for it
Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:31:07 -0700 (PDT)
An unusual slant on Socrates' death:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/arrogance-of-socrates-made-a-compelling-case-for-his-death-1699215.html ...
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the history of masturbation
Fri, 5 Jun 2009 05:49:14 -0700 (PDT)
From ?The Male Sexual Machine?, Chapter 10, by Kenneth Purvis, MD
Our first experience of life?s liquid can frighten, embarrass, or even
shock. Nobody prepares you. Puberty is well on its way; a strange,
pleasant feeling wakes you from a dream; you feel wet down there. No,
you haven?t suddenly become incontinent, ...
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Mathematical logic and language in the brain
Fri, 5 Jun 2009 04:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
Mathematical Logic in the Human Brain: Syntax
Roland Friedrich, Angela D. Friederici
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig,
Germany
Abstract
Theory predicts a close structural relation of formal languages with
natural languages. Both share the aspect of an underlying grammar
which ...
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