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Most Vertebrates — Including Humans — Descended from Ancestor With Sixth Sense

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From ScienceDaily People experience the world through five senses but sharks, paddlefishes and certain other aquatic vertebrates have a sixth sense: They can detect weak electrical fields in the water and use this information to detect prey, communicate and orient themselves. A study in the Oct. 11 issue of Nature Communications that caps more than [...]

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Is it homophobic to split up gay penguins?

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From Alex Needham for The Guardian When Toronto zoo bought African penguins Pedro and Buddy from Pittsburgh’s National Aviary, they expected them to mate with two females. Instead, despite being trailed by lovelorn lady penguins, they only had eyes for each other, engaging in what naturalists call “courtship behaviour”. So Tom Mason, the zoo’s curator [...]

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Visualizing How A Population Grows To 7 Billion

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Video and article from NPR The U.N. estimates that the world’s population passed the 7 billion mark on Monday, 10/31/2011. Much of that growth has happened in Asia — in India and China. Those two countries have been among the world’s most populous for centuries. But a demographic shift is taking place as the countries [...]

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Green Tea Helps Mice Keep Off Extra Pounds

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From ScienceDaily Green tea may slow down weight gain and serve as another tool in the fight against obesity, according to Penn State food scientists. Obese mice that were fed a compound found in green tea along with a high-fat diet gained weight significantly more slowly than a control group of mice that did not [...]

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Tarra The Elephant Mourns The Loss Of Companion Dog Bella

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From A Place To Love Dogs Happier Days For those who have not seen this video from The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee, it is a heartwarming story of an unusual bond between Tarra the elephant and her best friend Bella, who just happens to be a dog. The Sad Event Sadly, on Oct. 28th/2011 The [...]

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18 Frightening Financial Facts You Didn’t Know About Halloween

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From Len Penzo I love Halloween. It’s one of my favorite holidays — and based upon its mass appeal, apparently I’m not alone. In fact, even though the wicked economy continues to put a scare into most of us, it hasn’t dampened our spirits when it comes to celebrating what was originally known as All [...]

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How Many Slaves Are Working For You?

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by Ariel Schwartz A new website and mobile app looks at your purchases and determines the amount of forced labor that’s gone into everything you own. The number may surprise you. It’s not easy to be a socially responsible consumer. Even if you buy mostly local products and diligently keep track of corporate environmental footprints, [...]

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Doing Something Right

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by Kristie Wang Transforming inmates into entrepreneurs in Texas — and saving millions of tax dollars Texas has been the center of a swirl of controversy lately in two very different arenas: the state’s enthusiastic embrace of the death penalty, and Republican frontrunner Rick Perry’s touted track record of job creation. Perry’s history of job [...]

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Unexpected Success for the RandomKid

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by Talia Leman, youth entrepreneur and founder of RandomKid My grandparents are convinced that I have been an entrepreneur since I was four years old. That’s when I opened a shoe store in their home. I took all 37 pairs of my grandmother’s shoes, placed one of each pair on the coffee table, and hid [...]

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When MurdochGate Met ClimateGate

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From Keith Olbermann I’m cross-posting this from our Current website because, well, because. And because the Murdoch Phone-Hacking Scandal may have just metastasized. The so-called “Climate-Gate” controversy – in which e-mails about Global Warming were stolen from researchers at Britain’s University of East Anglia in November, 2009 – now turns out to bear the stamp [...]

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