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Space Company Tests Reusable Rocket
A Southern California-based space company has successfully tested a reusable rocket it hopes will make it cheaper to go...
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Christmas Celebrations Around the World
From Mayanmar to Lithuania, and Jerusalem to Vatican City, the faithful gathered on Christmas 2012 in churches around the...
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Commerce Claus: The Behavioral Economics of Christmas
Some economists dislike Christmas. They allege that it “destroys value,” which is, in Econoland, the first and only sin....
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Pagan Roots? 5 Surprising Facts About Christmas
When you gather around the Christmas tree or stuff goodies into a stocking, you’re taking part in traditions that...
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Latin Americans Rank as Happiest People on Planet
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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Do the Math: How Songbirds Learn to Sing
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
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
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
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
Is there a sense in which a gun, once put in hand, must be fired? If so, how deeply...