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Majority of Handprints Found in Ancient Cave Paintings from Women | more

Earliest known nervous system found

Eating popcorn 'disrupts advertising' -- "Researchers found that viewers remember brands by simulating the pronunciation of a new name with their mouths. [...] 'The mundane activity of eating popcorn made participants immune to the pervasive effects of advertising,' said Sascha Topolinski, one of the researchers."

Now We Have Proof Reading Literary Fiction Makes You a Better Person -- And people look at me askance when I say the only fiction I read are the classics.

Why we miss Kay Bailey Hutchison -- The Texan paper of record disowns its own endorsement of Ted Cruz

More Tea Party/Cruz news on this day of impending government reopening:

Anderson Cooper decides GOP strategist Alex Castellanos is 'high' after he says Cruz is 'having bunny sex'

Tea party wants to take America back -- to the 18th century

Reynolds & Heathersdown

There's a Waffle House . . . in Toledo?

I was unaware that the chain had infiltrated the northern states.

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Blow to multiple human species idea -- "Writing in Science, the team says that Homo habilis, Homo rudolfensis and Homo erectus are all part of a single evolving lineage that led to modern humans."

Some Monkeys Have Conversations That Resemble Ours -- marmosets

Scans prove NFL brain drain -- Well, the league certainly settled their lawsuit at the right time.

Donor Eggs Increasingly Used for IVF, With Rising Success -- I had no idea that black women who use IVF experience lower rates of success. Interesting.