Around_the_Web – Page 41

Latin Americans Rank as Happiest People on Planet
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
A poll of nearly 150,000 people around the world says seven of the world’s 10 countries with the most...
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How Life Emerged From Deep-Sea Rocks
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
Rocks, water and hot alkaline fluid rich in hydrogen gas spewing out of deep-sea vents: this recipe for life...
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Do the Math: How Songbirds Learn to Sing
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
Scientists studying how songbirds stay on key have developed a statistical explanation for why some things are harder for...
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Researchers Unlock Ancient Secret of Chinese Medicine
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
For over a millennium the Chinese have used an herb known as Chang Shan to treat fevers associated with...
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Antarctica: It’s Getting Hot at the Bottom of the Planet
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
One of the big environmental stories of 2012 was the record melting of sea ice in the Arctic, which...
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Fat Influences Production, Survival Decisions Taken By Brain Cells
By the Editor on December 24, 2012
Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have identified two molecules that play an important role in the survival and...
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I Grip the Gun and the Gun Grips Me
By the Editor on December 22, 2012
Is there a sense in which a gun, once put in hand, must be fired? If so, how deeply...
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Coral Reefs Could Be Decimated by 2100
By the Editor on December 22, 2012
Nearly every coral reef could be dying by 2100 if current carbon dioxide emission trends continue, according to a...
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Mars Rover Opportunity Finds ‘Rich’ Clay Deposits
By the Editor on December 21, 2012
NASA’s long-lived Mars rover Opportunity that beat newcomer sister probe Curiosity to an area containing water-formed clay minerals, has...
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Everything Was Better When We Had God In Our Schools
By the Editor on December 21, 2012
Anthea Butler and others have quite appropriately drawn attention to and criticized conservative Christians who blame the Newtown tragedy...
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