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Oklahoma is OK?
Before/After_ (Link)
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Portland, Oregon, Says No To Fluoridation_
Residents of Portland, Oregon, voted down, yet again, an effort to add fluoride to their tap water. With 80 percent of the expected ballots counted, Mayor Charlie Hales “conceded defeat,” the Associated Press reported. Portland is the largest U.S. city … Continue reading
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Cloned Human Embryo Study Comes Under Fire_
A week ago, scientists from Oregon Health and Science University and the Oregon National Primate Research Center announced that they had successfully used human skin cells to clone embryonic stem cells. In the few days since the researchers’ work came … Continue reading
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Physicists Create Quantum Link Between Photons That Don’t Exist at the Same Time_
Now they’re just messing with us. Physicists have long known that quantum mechanics allows for a subtle connection between quantum particles called entanglement, in which measuring one particle can instantly set the otherwise uncertain condition, or “state,” of another particle—even … Continue reading
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20 hours sleep a day_
The creatures spend as much as 20 hours a day sleeping while hanging from a tree limb or curled up near a branch. Sloths have a four-part stomach that slowly digests the tough leaves they eat. It can sometimes take … Continue reading
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Got A Wound? Science Says Rub Some Dirt In It_
The colloquial medical advice “rub some dirt in it” appears to have some merit. Researchers at Arizona State University’s Biodesign Institute have been experimenting with different clays, and it appears in research presented in the journal PLoS ONE that they’ve … Continue reading
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Inverted Landscape_
Downside Up_ (Link)
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Humans With Amplified Intelligence Could Be More Powerful Than AI_
With much of our attention focused the rise of advanced artificial intelligence, few consider the potential for radically amplified human intelligence (IA). It’s an open question as to which will come first, but a technologically boosted brain could be just … Continue reading
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Naked hiker saved from Colorado mountain after taking mushrooms and fighting with her roommates_
A college student needed to be rescued when she decided to take hallucinogenic mushrooms while hiking on a mountain. Taylor Powers stripped off her clothes after she took the drugs and got into a fight with her two roommates who … Continue reading
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The strongest living land creatures on Earth, measured by their power to weight ratio:
Leafcutter ants are social insects found in warmer regions of the Americas. These unique ants have evolved an advanced agricultural system based on ant-fungus mutualism. They feed on special structures called gongylidia produced by a specialized fungus that grows only … Continue reading
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