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Do Be So Sentimental
Studies show that nostalgia has powerful evolutionary functions.
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Women’s Fliberation
Will Big Pharma's female Viagra-hopeful Flibanserin enliven ailing sex lives—or handcuff women to another daily pill?
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Book Club: The Happiness Project
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Portraits
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Lessons from the Sea Squirt
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Underwired
Prosthetic Memory: A Camera That Gives Back Lost Moments
Observation changes even the smallest of observed particles. Can it change moments and memories, too?
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Creature Feature
Slippery Negotiations in a Banana Republic
Apes do negotiate—just not, apparently, with Ronald Reagan.
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The Ecological Consequences of Vampirism
AKA, Wherein an Ecologist takes down New Moon
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Green & Crunchy
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With a product name like this, YOU CANNOT FAIL.
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Creature Feature
The Secret Life of Bed Bugs
Think Sex in the City is wicked? It doesn't hold a candle to the kinky things bed bugs get up to.
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18 November 2009
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Human Nature
Turning a Blind Eye to Blindness
The damage to their visual cortex means there's no way these patients can see. Why do they deny they're blind?
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10 November 2009
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Human Nature
The Promise and Perils of Brain Massage
Deep brain stimulation offers hope to many patients, but changing the brain’s signals can have unintended effects.
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07 October 2009
The Promise and Perils of Brain MassageDeep brain stimulation offers hope to many patients, but changing the brain’s signals can have unintended effects.
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Health
Raising the (Apparently) Dead
A partial and eclectic history of resuscitation techniques.
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07 October 2009
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Could the seminal life cycle of snowshoe hares be explained by shell shock?
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20 November 2008
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Green cuisine goes a long way for your belly and the environment.
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Realpolitik
The Ultimate Problemsolver: Computer + Evolution = Genius
Computers using evolutionary algorithms are building NASA antennas, solving global warming and entertaining gamers.
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08 July 2008
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Health
How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to Death
Looks like the messy and deadly river of blood that flows from some trauma patients can be staunched.
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19 June 2008
How One Doctor Fights the Grim Spectre of Bleeding to DeathLooks like the messy and deadly river of blood that flows from some trauma patients can be staunched.
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Human Nature
Nurture Your Inner Psychic - No Paranormal Powers Required!
How everyday mind reading skills help us navigate - or get lost in - the stormy landscape of human interactions
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17 May 2008
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