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• Crossing Valleys in Fitness Landscapes

  

  With his "holey adaptive landscapes", Sergey Gavrilets (e.g. 1997) solved the problem of crossing valleys of low fitness in the fitness landscape* by positing... Read more

  The 23 July 2012 by   Bjornostman
  

• Why Conspiracy Thinks He’s Possessed by Two Intergalactic Space Demons

  

  You may have seen my tweet about the upcoming documentary Mars Project, which tackles complex issues such as mental illness, drug use, psychiatry, race, and... Read more

  The 11 July 2012 by   Neuroamer
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• Mermaids Don’t Exist, Says US Government Agency

  

  Daryl Hannah in Splash: Not real, unfortunately The background Sad news has reached our shores (quite literally): mermaids do not exist. Yes, repeat: mermaids d... Read more

  The 04 July 2012 by   Periscope
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• Top 10 Most Prescribed Psychiatric Drugs, Top 10 Overall, and the 10 We Spend th...

  

  What prescription drugs do we take and why are we taking them? Get a glass of water, choke down your horse pills, and take a look at the 10 most prescribed... Read more

  The 06 July 2012 by   Neuroamer
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• Misdiagnosing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder

  

  Facial abnormalities not present in most cases. Back in 1967, when a French pediatrician tried to alert doctors to developmental problems he had recognized in... Read more

  The 29 July 2012 by   Dirkh
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• America's Sinking Cities

  

  Coastal towns facing a losing battle against the sea? Read more

  The 03 July 2012 by   Conroy
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• Viral Video: View from the International Space Station at Night

  

  Planet Earth Every frame in this sensational video is a photograph taken from the International Space Station. Photographer Knate Myers, who specialises in... Read more

  The 24 July 2012 by   Periscope
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• Space Travel and Brain Injury

  

  We’ve been to the moon, astronauts have spent months floating around the space station, and the dream of many is to eventually visit Mars. But, space isn’t all... Read more

  The 17 July 2012 by   Dplylemd
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• Single Base Sequencing of 5-hydroxy-methyl CpGs is Now Possible

  

  5-hydroxy-methyl CpGs (5-hmCs) were first discovered in 2009 and shown to be enriched in the brain, but remain a mysterious epigenetic mark, despite intriguing... Read more

  The 13 July 2012 by   Neuroamer
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• Cracking the Tough Nut of Chimp Tool Use

  

  A paper just out in PLoSOne reports that chimpanzees, given some experience and enough of a weight difference, prefer to use heavier hammer stones when... Read more

  The 20 July 2012 by   Andrew D Wilson
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