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Rancher’s Views on Race Send Supporters Fleeing -- "The coalition of supporters for Cliven Bundy, the Nevada rancher battling the federal government's attempt to remove his cattle from public land, began crumbling on Thursday over his suggestion that African-Americans might have been better off in slavery." (NYT)

Education May Help Insulate The Brain Against Traumatic Injury -- I suspect this is due to redundant storage.

Man seeks to hide 'murder' tattoo before trial -- Seriously, though. A neck tattoo? That's commitment.
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Woman Finds Body While Hunting for Easter Eggs in Her Backyard

How Do We Explain The Evolution Of Religion? -- "[H]uman religiosity was primed by the meaning-making, imagination, empathy and rule-following of other primates (primates with whom we shared a common ancestor in the past, or those common ancestors themselves). Religious imagination flowered later, in the hominin lineage, as our brains were increasingly selected over time to think beyond the here-and-now."

Study reveals why Neanderthals never faced brain disorders

Scientists unmask a piece in the puzzle of how the inheritance of traumas is mediated -- "[T]raumatic stress alters the amount of several microRNAs in the blood, brain and sperm – while some microRNAs were produced in excess, others were lower than in the corresponding tissues or cells of control animals. These alterations resulted in misregulation of cellular processes normally controlled by these microRNAs."

Here Are the States Where Blowjobs Are Illegal But Necrophilia's Cool -- Just in case you needed the reference.
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Texas judge orders prisons to name lethal injection drug supplier -- State to appeal.

Blue Line crash update: Brakes engaged, train wasn't speeding -- You know, I'd seen some headlines about this story a few days ago, but the pictures are something else.

US top court rules domestic abusers can't own guns -- Somebody alert George Zimmerman.

Beer marinades may reduce carcinogens in grilled meats: study -- This is the third news story I've read this week that mentions PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons). As for the marinade, my only question is, "Is it tasty?"

Selfie addict took TWO HUNDRED a day--and tried to kill himself when he couldn't take perfect photo
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Police: 12 razors glued to East Moline playground

4 in 10 high school boys, young men report coerced sex -- "[H]aving unwanted sex did not appear to affect the victims' self-esteem."

The pseudo-science of Alcoholics Anonymous: There’s a better way to treat addiction -- "Peer-reviewed studies peg the success rate of AA somewhere between 5 and 10 percent. That is, about one of every fifteen people who enter these programs is able to become and stay sober."

Danish Zoo Puts Down Family Of Four Lions, After Sparking International Outrage For Killing Giraffe Last Month -- "Last month, 18-month old giraffe Marius was shot and dissected in front of a live large audience. He was later fed to the lions."

This is your brain on knitting
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Forget bread & circuses. Try beer & bingo:

A Conservative advert highlighting changes to beer and bingo taxes in the Budget has been criticised by Labour and the Lib Dems as "patronising".

The online advert said the 1p cut in beer duty and the halving of bingo duty to 10% would help "hardworking people do more of the things they enjoy".

Visit the site to take a look at the ad yourself. I don't know who thought that was a good idea.
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ICE: More than 100 immigrants found in suspected stash house

New York City inmate 'essentially baked to death' in overheated jail cell

Researchers show how lost sleep leads to lost neurons -- I've "overclocked" myself many times, so this is a bit concerning. Still, I'd like to know exactly the parameters of the experiment (how long the mice were kept awake, &c).

Older women 'twice as likely to develop Alzheimer's than breast cancer'

Titanium golf clubs can cause courses to catch on fire -- "[I]f hit upon a rock, clubs containing titanium can produce sparks of up to 3,000 degrees that will burn for more than a second[.]"
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Fukushima's children at centre of debate over rates of thyroid cancer

Free Birth Control does not Encourage Risky Sexual Behaviors Among Women: Study -- Yes, this study was a thing.

Thousands of bees attack woman in California

Tampa family sickened by LSD-tainted beef -- This story doesn't make sense to me, unless the family ate steak tartare. I was under the impression that heat degrades LSD (which is why it's recommended that doses be kept in cold, dark storage spaces).

74,476 Reasons You Should Always Get The Bigger Pizza -- "A pizza is a circle, and the area of a circle increases with the square of the radius. So, for example, a 16-inch pizza is actually four times as big as an 8-inch pizza."
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Former Army officer sentenced to 20 years in prison for child sex assaults after admitting his twin didn't do it -- Remember this story from a few months back? Funny thing: turns out his brother really is a sexual predator.

Case against man who texted photo of his tattooed genitals dismissed -- The sad thing here is that the guy actually has a typo tattooed there forever. Never mind the cliche.

Strange State of Matter Found in Chicken's Eye -- "'[D]isordered hyperuniformity' has been discovered in the eye of a chicken. This arrangement of particles appears disorganized over small distances but has a hidden order that allows material to behave like both a crystal and a liquid."
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Republican lawmaker very sorry he said men should be able to rape women if abortion is legal

The right defends a new Jim Crow: 50 years since the Civil Rights Act, wingnuts still don't get it

Study: Racial Bias in Pain Perception Appears Among Children as Young as 7

Study shows why breastfed babies are so smart -- "[A] new study by sociologists at Brigham Young University pinpoints two parenting skills as the real source of this cognitive boost: Responding to children's emotional cues and reading to children starting at 9 months of age. Breastfeeding mothers tend to do both of those things, said lead study author Ben Gibbs."

USDA adds foods to moms and kids food program (WIC)

High-calorie diet may slow ALS progression

Researchers Identify Brain Differences Linked to Insomnia -- "The researchers found that the motor cortex in patients with chronic insomnia was more adaptable to change — more plastic — than in a group of people who slept well."

Older dads' kids more vulnerable to mental disorders -- "A child born to a father 45 or older is three and a half times more likely to be diagnosed with autism, more than 13 times more likely to have attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and almost 25 times more likely to suffer from bipolar disorder than a child born to a man in his early twenties, says a study out this week."

Baby's brain tumor contained fully grown teeth
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Rare Supreme Court Outburst Caught on Even Rarer Videos

Obesity, 'The Pill' May Raise MS Risk, Research Suggests -- "One team of researchers found that people who were obese at age 20 had double the risk of developing MS in their lifetime. [...] Meanwhile, a second group of scientists found that women who had taken birth control pills were 35 percent more likely to develop MS[.]"

Utah students caught smoking pot in an igloo | more -- Why did the police feel the need to tear down the igloo--with a sledgehammer?

'Effective Water Filters' Found Growing Inside Tree Branches -- "A team of MIT researchers have discovered a small piece of sapwood can filter out approximately 99 percent of the bacteria E. coli from lake or river water, producing up to four liters of clean, potable water a day."

Male goat essence really turns the females on -- "[A]nalyses uncovered several chemicals specific to intact male goats, including one in particular, 4-ethyloctanal, with the power to activate the gonadotropin-releasing hormone pulse generator in the female brain, which governs the reproductive endocrine system. The researchers were able to show the effects of that ingredient using a method they developed for real-time electrophysiological monitoring of a key part of the goats' brains."
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Spanking bill dies in Kansas House committee

Life after Jordan Davis, Trayvon Martin: Shore weighs in on race, violence

Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford favors changing Stand Your Ground

Rhode Island police chiefs to consider use of Narcan

Searching Walker emails is the rage in Wisconsin -- "More than 900,000 people signed the recall petition, and their signatures have been posted online in a database now used to vet political candidates, elected officials, co-workers, and sometimes even friends. Last summer, Walker rescinded the appointment of a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student to the UW Board of Regents after the student confirmed he had signed the recall petition."

Master monkey's brain controls sedated 'avatar' -- "The brain of one monkey has been used to control the movements of another, 'avatar', monkey, US scientists report. Brain scans read the master monkey's mind and were used to electrically stimulate the avatar's spinal cord, resulting in controlled movement. The team hope the method can be refined to allow paralysed people to regain control of their own body."

Fatwa forbids Muslims from traveling to Mars
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Chicago Student Found Dead in Dorm Room After More Than a Week

A Woman's Right to Move -- "[T]his ruling took those rights way too far, to the point of dangerousness. It treated a fetus as a child, for purposes of a custody battle. And in doing so, it threatened to limit the rights of a pregnant woman to move and travel."

Rapes are up under new FBI definition -- Not the most in-depth or informative article, but look at the picture. The signs the women hold up are very illuminating. "In the past 20 years, 0.00% of rapists have been expelled from Amherst." "Is laptop theft worse than rape? Amherst says YES."

'Boys will be boys' no excuse; feds target Montana handling of rapes -- "One clinical psychologist who treated many sexual assault survivors said that she was so put off by how local prosecutors treated her clients that when she herself was sexually assaulted, she was 'reluctant' to go to the authorities."

Unusual Iowa abortion rule has surprising result -- Governor Branstad refuses to issue reimbursements for Medicaid abortions; U of I hospitals perform them anyway

Why MSNBC's political scandal coverage is more powerful than Fox News': It comes down to credibility

15-Year-Old Girl Shot Dead For Egging Arkansas Man's Car

Noose tied on Ole Miss integration statue

Pesticide-tainted Mexican cactus can make you very ill, warns California Department of Health -- "Health officials said that a batch of tested cactus pads, also known as 'nopales' contain Monocrotophos, a pesticide that is no longer approved for use in the U.S. since 1989. The insecticide is acutely toxic and it is frequently used as a tool for committing suicide. It can also lead to permanent nerve damage."

Scientists Reach Nuclear Fusion Milestone

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