With Music, What You See Affects What You Hear
A flourish of the arm can seem to extend a note, even if the sound itself is exactly the same
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Are You Here on Earth Just to Make Babies?
If so, what does that really mean for what we do each day, our culture and our society?
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The Myers-Briggs Personality Test Is Pretty Much Meaningless
Everybody relies on those four letters far more than they should
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After 195 Years, Georgia Is Still Complaining About Its Border With Tennessee
Georgia, again, wants to move its border a mile to the north
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Scientists Published Henrietta Lacks’ Genome Without the Consent of Her Family
Author Rebecca Skloot argues that society is not ready for full genetic disclosures of individuals
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Smuggler Caught With 10 Percent of an Entire Species
At the Suvarnabhumi International Airport in Thailand, authorities stopped a man with some turtles. Fifty-four ploughshare tortoises and twenty-one radiated tortoises, to be exact
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The Count of Dead Pigs Pulled Out of Chinese Rivers Is Up to 16,000
Recent plagues of dead animals floating down China’s rivers may be due to farmers evading heightened environmental regulations
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Italian Dictator Mussolini’s Secret Bunker Unearthed
Hidden beneath the Palazzo Venezia, Benito Mussolini’s World War II bunker
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Tracing $1 Bills Across the United States Is a Surprisingly Useful Hobby
What started as a quirky hobby, has turned into a national bill hunt that’s useful for all sorts of people - like physicists
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Five-Year-Old Girl Discovers Fossil of Previously Unknown Pterosaur
A brand new pterosaur and a 300-million year old crab, the fossil finds of kids
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Obama Dedicates Five New National Monuments
Locals and environmentalists are happy about the decision, but others warn that the new monuments arrive just in time for the sequester’s budget cuts
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Can Watching One Video Help You Die Better?
Since most of us don’t see emergency medicine all that often, we tend to have an unrealistic idea about just how end of life care works
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Students Cheated Their Way to Quiz Bowl Wins
The school was just stripped of four quiz bowl championships, after evidence surfaced that some of its students might have sneaked a peak at the questions before hand
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It Snowed So Hard During This Soccer Game That Costa Rica Wants a Rematch With the U.S.
It was snowing so hard that they had to use a bright yellow ball to even see what was going on
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Lockheed Martin Has Crazy-Fast Quantum Computers And Plans on Actually Using Them
The defense contractor will be the first company to use quantum computers on a commercial scale
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Physicists Use Ytterbium Ions to Make March Madness Picks
Even knowledgable fans aren’t great at making predictions, so quantum physics may be the surest way to cash in on the madness
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People in Israel Really Are Eating Swarming Locusts
While there are simply too many locusts to eat the swarm out of existence, Israelis who do tuck in can enjoy a healthy, kosher snack
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Robot-only internet! Self-teaching robots!
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It has to do with the dry winter air, says new research
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The Secret to Olive Oil’s Anti-Alzheimer’s Powers
A natural substance found in olive oil called oleocanthal helps to block and destroy plaque build up in the brain that causes Alzheimer’s
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