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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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Supreme Court ruling eases police search of suspect's home -- "The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed a victory to law enforcement agencies by making it easier for police to search a dwelling without a warrant. The court held on a 6-3 vote that police can search a home without a warrant, even if the suspect has objected, as long as he is no longer on the scene and a co-tenant gives consent." Moral? Live alone.

Indiana lawmakers back off religious discrimination proposal -- Where are these people coming from? It's a veritable onslaught.

Many L.A. Unified school libraries, lacking staff, are forced to shut

Tetris can Reduce Cravings for Food, Cigarettes or Alcohol, Study Reports

Sex Addicted Mammal Species Discovered In Australia; Males Have So Much Sex They Die Early
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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 Last summer, Walker rescinded the appointment of a University of Wisconsin-Platteville student to the UW Board of Regents after the student confirmed he had signed the recall petition."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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Certain parts of the brain activated in people who heard tailored health messages and quit smoking -- dorsomedial prefrontal cortex

NYU researchers identify neural circuits used in processing basic linguistic phrases -- "Surprisingly [...], "Broca's" and "Wernicke's" areas appeared to play no role in the comprehension of [...] basic phrases. Instead [...], results revealed increased activity in the left anterior temporal lobe, followed by increased activity in the ventromedial prefrontal cortex region of the brain during the processing of simple adjective-noun phrases."

Researchers have found how brain cells control their movement to form the cerebral cortex

Making the ‘Irrelevant’ Relevant to Understand Memory and Aging

A Grudge Match between Humanity and Death--Who Wins? -- "[N]ew research [...] shows that being a mindful person not only makes you generally more tolerant and less defensive, but it can also actually neutralize fears of dying and death."

New Baylor Study Shows Higher Job Performance Linked to People Who Are More Honest and Humble

Full Bladder, Better Decisions? Controlling Your Bladder Decreases Impulsive Choices

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Study: Insomnia is deadly for men -- "Men with insomnia [six or fewer hours of sleep per night] were more than four times as likely to die as 'good sleepers' during the 14-year study, published Wednesday in the journal Sleep. [...] Self-reported chronic insomnia plus lack of sleep among women did not result in more deaths among women."

Heavy Drinkers Outlive Non-Drinkers | Why Do Moderate Drinkers Live Longer Than Abstainers?
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Brain's preparation center gets 'juiced' by prospect of winning -- "[T]he left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, located in the brain approximately two inches above the left eyebrow, is a key area that both predicts a win, or successful outcome, and prepares the motivational cognitive control network to win again."

Brain gene expression changes when honey bees go the distance -- "Tricking honey bees into thinking they have traveled long distance to find food alters gene expression in their brains[.] [...] Foraging honey bees make unique research animals in part because they communicate in a language humans can decode[.] After a successful hunt, a forager performs a highly stylized 'dance' that tells her peers what direction to go to find the food, how good it is and how far away it is. The bee does a 'round dance' if the food is close to home, while a 'waggle dance' indicates it is farther away."

Brain Connections Break Down as We Age -- corpus callosum & "cross-talk"

Scripps Research scientists uncover possible cocaine addiction trigger -- "The results from the new study strongly suggest that a protein known as methyl CpG binding protein 2 (MeCP2) interacts with a type of genetic material known as microRNA [specifically, microRNA-212] to control an individual's motivation to consume cocaine."

Spinal cord regeneration success in mice

Fate of Universe revealed by galactic lens -- "A 'galactic lens' has revealed that the Universe will probably expand forever."

Fears Influence Actual Risk of Falls
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Scientists Pinpoint Area of Brain That Fears Losing Money -- the amygdala, as commonsense knowledge of neuroanatomy would lead one to presume

Sweet Tooth in Children May Be Linked to Alcoholism -- This I find more surprising.

Being bored could be bad for your health -- "In a commentary to be published in the International Journal of Epidemiology in April, experts say there's a possibility that the more bored you are, the more likely you are to die early."
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Webb et al v. United States

This is a Supreme Court decision, delivered in 1919, that expressly states that addiction is not a disease. Its effect was to uphold the Harrison Tax Act, passed in 1914.

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