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When it comes to romance, are good looks more important to you than anything else??Only if you’re good looking yourself! In LiveScience.com, Jeanna Bryner quotes behaviorist Dan Ariely as saying, “Beautiful people marry beautiful people and less beautiful people marry less beautiful people.” And what do people who aren’t terribly good looking do? According to Ariely, they “?basically switch what they care about and they start caring less about beauty and more about sense of humor.”
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Legendary author of “The Lost Treasure of the Knights Templar” Steven Sora is back on Dreamland, this time with William Henry, to tell us about how Homer’s tales of the Iliad and the Odyssey are actually adaptations of ancient Celtic stories of wars between Atlantean city-states. Then Linda Howe interviews the scientist who is studying that catastrophic ice shelf melt in the Antarctic, and reports on a bizarre deer mutilation that happened just this week!

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The world’s biggest dump is the ocean and most of the trash that ends up there is non-biodegradable plastic. And because of ocean currents, most of it washes up in one small part of the world: a tiny island in the Pacific ocean. Plastic trash in the ocean may be leaching toxic chemicals that affect the entire food chain, including the fish we eat. Matt Brown of US Fish and Wildlife says, “The thing that’s most worrisome about the plastic is its tenaciousness, its durability. It’s not going to go away in my lifetime or my children’s lifetimes. The plastic washing up on the beach today?if people don’t take it away it’ll still be here when my grandchildren walk these beaches.”
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