Don’t believe everything you receive in an email or text message: A new study finds that communication using computers for instant messaging and e-mail increases lying compared to face-to-face conversations.

A study looked at 110 same-sex pairs of college students who engaged in 15 minute conversations either face-to-face, using e-mail, or using instant messaging. The results were then analyzed for inaccuracies. In addition to the distance one person is from the other, e-mail communication has the added component of being asynchronous, not as connected in real time as instant messaging or face-to-face conversation.
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Addiction and impulsivity are genetically linked together in men. This gene has already been linked to smoking, alcoholism and obesity. One gene, called NRXN3, is causing men A LOT of problems!

In LiveScience.com, Stephanie Pappas quotes psychologist Scott Stoltenberg as saying, "The other studies basically showed the NRXN3 seems to be associated with some addictions and with obesity, but our study is really the first to flesh out the mechanism by looking at behavioral control, looking at impulsivity."
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Chinese archeologists say that they have discovered that 12,000 years ago, an alien race used some regions of their country as a massive headquarters here on Earth. They base this conclusion on the Xianyang pyramid near the top of Mount Baigong in the western province of Qinghai. While it must be realized that much of the news coming out of China is bogus, we are willing to consider that something strange went on there in the past.

UFOs are nothing new: On his website, Colin Andrews reports on the discovery of a UFO sighting in the UK in 1733. It was "a report of a silver disc darting across the sky as fast as a falling star."
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