Check your internet usage. Do you check your e-mail compulsively? Watch lots of videos? Switch frequently among multiple Internet applications–from games to file downloads to chat rooms? Yep, you’re depressed, all right.
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It’s hard to believe, but true: the demise of a tall, willowy plant called the glacier lily, that grows in mountain meadows throughout western North America, could mean the end of hummingbirds. It flowers early in spring, when the first bumblebees and hummingbirds appear–or it did, anyway. In Earth’s warming temperatures, its first blooms appear around 17 days earlier than they did in the 1970s. By the time the hummingbirds fly in, many of the flowers have withered away, their nectar-laden blooms going with them.
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A new study leads researchers to conclude that there is an extensive amount of water in the interior of Mars, a conclusion that is very different from earlier speculations. Astronomers discovered this by analyzing meteorites that originated from the surface of the planet.
In fact, the research suggests that the volume of water within the Martian mantle is similar to the volume of water in Earth’s upper mantle. In other words, there’s an equal amount of water on Mars, you just have to dig for it.
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Gobekli Tepi is the most mysterious archaeological site ever found. It consists of numerous carved circles of enormous standing stones, but the most amazing part of it is that the site has been confirmed to be at least 12,000 years old. Not only that, these immense structures were not only built, used in some unknown way for a thousand years, they were then painstakingly BURIED. But why? By whom?
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