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Feet, rather than fists, are the most dangerous bodily weapon. When researchers looked at the records of 25,000 patients in Wales who were hospitalized due to violent altercations, they found that for those people who had been attacked with someone’s feet were the most likely to be injured. This is valuable knowledge for men who fear being attacked by stronger bullies.

Almost two thirds of the patients studied reported being attacked by just one assailant, and around one in five injuries were inflicted using a weapon of some sort, about equally divided between sharp and blunt objects. The use of weapons was significantly more likely to cause serious injury than the use of body parts, so your feet won’t be much of a help if the other person has a weapon.
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Popular Dreamland co-host William Henry will be on Coast to Coast AM with George Noory on Wednesday, Dec. 20, starting at 10 pm Pacific time. Our chats with William have been a huge success–don’t miss his conversation with George!

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Our War on Drugs is getting to seem more and more futile, especially since it has reached the point where marijuana is America’s most valuable cash crop, worth more to farmers than wheat and corn combined, despite the fact that both of those crops are heavily subsidized.
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Scientists who have studied primates in the wild have learned that yawning is “catching.” Now researchers think that laughter is catching too.

In LiveScience.com, Andrea Thompson quotes neuroscientist Sophie Scott as saying, “We’ve known for some time that when we are talking to someone, we often mirror their behavior, copying the words they use and mimicking their gestures. Now we?ve shown that the same appears to apply to laughter, too?at least at the level of the brain.”

Scott played a series of sounds?both positive and negative?to volunteers and measured their brain responses. All of them triggered responses in the part of the brain that prepares the muscles in the face to move in a certain way, depending on how the sound is interpreted.
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