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How the “Spiritual Not Religious” Gospel Has Spread
By the Editor on October 25, 2012
You can call them “unaffiliated,” as in a recent Pew poll, or “nones”—or even just “not very religious.” A...
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Moderate Drinking Decreases Brain Cell Regeneration
By the Editor on October 25, 2012
Drinking a moderate amount of alcohol can have an impact on the ability of brain cells to regenerate, according...
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Study Links Cooked Food to Early Humans’ Growing Brains
By the Editor on October 24, 2012
Here’s something for raw-food aficionados to chew on: Cooked food might be a big reason humans were able to...
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Scholarly Publishing’s Gender Gap
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Women cluster in certain fields, according to a study of millions of journal articles, while men get more credit
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Of Earthquakes and Human Responsibility
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
From Slate’s Future Tense blog: A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience indicates that human activity triggered a...
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Sex and Space Travel: Predictions From the 1950s
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
Outside of science fiction, the topic of sex in space has received surprisingly scant attention. But it was science...
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Evidence of Viking Outpost Found in Canada
By the Editor on October 23, 2012
For the past 50 years—since the discovery of a thousand-year-old Viking way station in Newfoundland—archaeologists and amateur historians have...
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A Swedish Stonehenge? Stone Age Tomb May Predate English Site
By the Editor on October 22, 2012
A 5,500-year-old tomb possibly belonging to a Stone Age chieftain has been unearthed at a megalithic monument in the...
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Prehistoric Human Populations Prospered Before Agricultural Boom
By the Editor on October 19, 2012
Researchers from China’s Fudan University have found major prehistoric human population expansions may have begun before the Neolithic period,...
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Genes and Immune System Shaped By Childhood Poverty, Stress
By the Editor on October 19, 2012
A University of British Columbia and Centre for Molecular Medicine and Therapeutics study has revealed that childhood poverty, stress...
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