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Your Language Gives You Away
November 4, 2011Using computerized text analysis, scientists are able to help police identify psychopathic murderers by analyzing the word choices they use when talking about their crimes. Researcher Jeff Hancock found that "the words of these criminals match their personalities, which reflect... continued
Make Sure Your Surgeon Plays Mozart
November 4, 2011Physicians who listen to Mozart while performing a colonoscopy may increase their detection rates of precancerous polyps. This is pretty amazing and we have a question: would the detection rate get better--or worse--with rock or rap? In this randomized controlled... continued
The Politics of Disgust
November 4, 2011Disgusted with politics? But just HOW disgusted you can be when confronted with a picture of a man eating a mouthful of writhing worms may lend important insight into your personal political proclivities. In a new study, political scientists closely... continued
Only the Rich Eat Well in China
November 4, 2011The food the ordinary Chinese eat may sometimes consist of soy sauce made from hair sweepings, but just as in the old Soviet Union (where the Communist elite shopped in special stories while ordinary folks stood in long lines to... continued
Volcano May Destroy a Country
November 3, 2011Why is a volcano in Bolivia getting bigger and more powerful so FAST? The Huffington Post quotes researcher Andrea Mustain as saying that a 43 mile wide volcano called Uturuncu is "inflating with astonishing speed." They quote volcanologist Shan de... continued
Spying on Your Computer
November 3, 2011The government is spying on us and now we're spying on each other. Here's the latest, and it's a pattern that repeats itself daily in hundreds of millions of offices and coffee shops around the world: People sit down, turn... continued
Next: Clothes That Think
November 3, 2011We have clothes that act as wifi and now we have clothes that think. The latest breakthrough in cotton fiber research has scientists envisioning hospital gowns that monitor medical patients and jerseys that test athletic performance. Fiber scientist Juan Hinestroza... continued
A Sheet of Paper Can Protect Us from Terrorist Attacks
November 2, 2011Those of us who watch our brave young soldiers on the TV news are often appalled by all the heavy equipment they have to carry, but soon they may be able to detect IEDs with a single sheet of paper.... continued
UFOs Caught on NFL Video
November 2, 2011A rod-shaped UFO was caught on video during the October 23rd NFL game between the New Orleans Saints and the Indianapolis Colts. As NBC's cameras returned from a commercial break, a couple of lit objects seemed to streak across the... continued
Smoking Makes You Feel Sexy
November 1, 2011Why do some older women smoke (when they surely know better by now)? It may make them feel sexy: a recent study discovered that postmenopausal women who smoke have higher androgen and estrogen levels than non-smoking women, with sex hormone... continued