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from Daily Mail (UK)
The river UNDER the sea: Haunting images of scuba diver exploring mysterious channel flowing in water-filled cavern
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from The Jerusalem Post
What markets do and what they cannot do
In a recent interview with Prof. Eric Maskin, a Nobel laureate in Economics asserted that “The market is no God – it cannot solve every problem.”
Egyptian anti-Obama video goes viral, blames him for siding with Muslim Brotherhood
Leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is at the vanguard of the street protests against Morsi’s ouster, claim the US supported the coup. Those opposed to the Brotherhood claim Washington has been and still is supporting the Islamists.
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from Medical Xpress - Medical and Health News
Practice makes the brain's motor cortex more efficient, research says
Not only does practice make perfect, it also makes for more efficient generation of neuronal activity in the primary motor cortex, the area of the brain that plans and executes movement, according to researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Their findings, published online today in Nature Neuroscience, showed that practice leads to decreased metabolic activity for internally generated movements, but not for visually guided motor tasks, and suggest the motor cortex is "plastic" and a potential site for the storage of motor skills.
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from Mother Nature Network
Turns out that brine can punch up your potato salad, take the edge off onions and even make a good sports drink. Want more? How about as a whiskey chaser?
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from NPR (& affiliates)
So, You Think You Can Dance?
Humans dance. And we love to talk. If Aniruddh D. Patel, a neuroscientist at Tufts university, is right, there is a deep link between dancing and speech.
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from The Spokesman-Review (Spokane, WA)
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State Farm Is There: As You Drive
Insurers Use Big Data to Track Drivers, Offering Discounts as Lure, But Privacy Advocates See Dangers
from The Wall Street Journal
State Farm Is There: As You Drive
Insurers Use Big Data to Track Drivers, Offering Discounts as Lure, But Privacy Advocates See Dangers
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