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• How Many Calories in Your Daily Alcohol?

  

  Booze as food. Everywhere we turn, the news is packed with stories about the nation’s obesity epidemic. But one little-discussed fact about our daily calorie... Read more

  The 25 November 2012 by   Dirkh
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• Dreams - Centring the Spiral - Free Planet

  

  this post is a weird amalgamation of subjects I usually keep separate; dreams and free planet.Dreams: is a category of post that deals only with the dreams I... Read more

  The 25 November 2012 by   Freeplanet
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• Musical Protolanguage Hypothesis - Support from Congenital Amusia.

  Fascinating work from Thompson et al. (open access), suggesting that sensitivity to emotion in speech prosody derives from our capacity to process music,... Read more

  The 23 November 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• Curiosity Rover's Secret Historic Breakthrough?

  

  image credit Much of the internet is buzzing over upcoming 'big news' from NASA's Curiosity rover, but the space agency's scientists are keeping quiet about... Read more

  The 23 November 2012 by   Gerard
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• Screencasting: Students Showing Skills

  

  One of the things at which I work very hard is trying to provide students with opportunities to achieve a level 5 understanding on my scoring scale. Read more

  The 22 November 2012 by   Mrsebiology
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• News as Entertainment

  This is an obvious observation but it struck me one day while watching the evening national news on multiple channels that the only thing that can... Read more

  The 21 November 2012 by   Ccc1685
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• E.T. Walrus Can't Yet Quite Sing, Nevertheless

  

  some of you may have remembered the Beatles singing I am the Walrus, well E.T. Walrus has retorted with his own wide range of entertaining vocalizations in... Read more

  The 21 November 2012 by   Pcd2k
  

• Thank Yous!

  The Primate and Predator Project would like to send a big thank you out to everyone who has contributed so far towards the SciFund Challenge brown hyaena... Read more

  The 20 November 2012 by   Iratemonkey
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• The Force of Affective Norms - the Stranger Effect

  Szczurek et al. make a more distanced and structured description of an experience we all have had - being put on guard in a chat with another person if their... Read more

  The 20 November 2012 by   Deric Bownds
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• Scientists Steal Sheldon’s Idea to Make Glow In the Dark Fish

  

  Remember that episode of The Big Bang Theory when Sheldon goes all crazy after losing his job and makes some crazy stuff at home? One of his super secret ideas... Read more

  The 18 November 2012 by   Nrjperera
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