The Real Spice of Life?
Glycolaldehyde, an 8-atom sugar molecule, is in gas-and-dust interstellar clouds near the center of the Milky Way. These clouds are …
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Clowning Your Way into Parenthood
Laughing may help fertility. In a quasi-randomized study, researchers at Assaf Harofeh Medical Center in Zrifin, Israel found that the pregnancy rate …
Amtrak Science (And Electron Orbitals)
Boarding the train to DC this morning I noticed again that people take their seats the way electrons fill an …
Baby Talk (I really “blif” you, Mommy)
B As we all know, Korean sounds nothing like French. Except for when it does. Since the first decades of …
Tough Love for Dog Lovers
The 2009 book He’s Just Not That Into You was (quoting the Amazon.com description) “tough love advice for otherwise smart …
Weight Loss the Easy Way?
Imagine having to lose 100 pounds or so, wishing you could have gastric bypass surgery, and then finding out that if …
The Incandescent Effect
Forget the “wisdom” about turning the lights down low to set a romantic mood. A new study by faculty at …
It’s Not Just Narcissists Who Want Plastic Surgery
… It’s narcisists who are perfectionists. Call it their own Snopes.com sleuthing. But hearing again and again that narcissistic self-absorption …
The Biology of Lying
When a mother in Ohio faked her address in order to send her child to a better public school, she …
What You Wish You Didn’t Know about Sugar
The average American consumes an astounding 2-3 pounds of sugar each week,. Actually, that’s not all that surprising. Sugar is …
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