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Scientists are now saying that what your mother told you was true: we need to learn to trust our intuition, and that this works especially well when it comes to taking tests.
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In a German research facility, researcher John-Dylan Haynes is reading the minds of volunteers with an MRI machine. He is scanning their brains while they make simple decisions, such as whether or not to add or subtract two numbers. The goal is to be able to figure out what decision they are going to make BEFORE they make it.

Scientists are already able to predict people’s physical actions, but measuring minute muscle twitches. Now they?re trying to go a step further and get into the decision process that starts those muscles moving in the first place.
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Our National Parks may be changing radically?very soon. One of the world’s largest supervolcanoes is beneath Yellowstone National Park. It’s “sleeping” right now, but if it “wakes up,” it could destroy parts of Wyoming, Montana and Idaho, and there is a lot of activity going on, deep beneath the surface. For some reason, the nearby Teton Mountain Range has gotten shorter. But the government is playing this down in order to avoid panic. In LiveScience.com, which is a NASA website, Sara Goudarzi quotes researcher Robert Smith as saying, “I don’t believe this is evidence for an impending volcanic eruption, but it would be prudent to keep monitoring the volcano.”
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One of the most horrifying acts of judicial barbarism in American history has just occurred, in yet another example of the insanity of our ineffective drug laws: A federal appeals court has decided that if the only thing that will keep a patient alive is medical marijuana, that individual may be put in prison, deprived of the substance, and left to die. “Oh my God,” were the words that desperately ill Angel Raich, a 41-year-old Oakland, California mother of two who depends on medical marijuana for her life, uttered as the savage ruling was read.
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