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Contagious Yawning: Why We Do It, What It Shows About Us (VIDEO)
Yawning is a mysterious thing. For starters, just reading that sentence may have caused you to yawn. The behavior, technically a reflex that involves opening the mouth and a simultaneous stretching of the eardrum, is contagious--and the video above sets out to explain why.
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Hamilton: ABC’s latest climate change doco another PR victory for doubters
Because it falls for the deniers’ tactic of doubt-mongering, ABC TV’s I Can Change Your Mind … About Climate Change is a victory for climate denial even before it goes to air . Read more on the blog...
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Companies join forces on Liberty launch system
The company that built the space shuttle’s solid rocket boosters says it has developed a complete astronaut transportation system using America’s existing launch facilities.
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Movie assailant punches a kid, becomes a folk hero
A 10-year-old gets punched in the face for being too noisy at "Titanic" -- and the Internet applauds the beating
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‘I’d rather slam my cock in a door than debate climate change’
The sum total of useful commentary on ABC’s stultifying I Can Change Your Mind About Climate was five minutes of British scientist and author Ben Goldacre saying he'd rather slam his c-ck in the door then debate climate change,... Read more... Read more on the blog...
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Video: Ask the Experts: How to Land a Job
Ellen Gordon Reeves, author of "Can I Wear My Nose Ring to the Interview?" joins MoneyWatch editors Jill Schlesinger and Jack Otter to offer advice to new grads, and anyone who is interviewing or looking for a new job.
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A Kennedy Family Portrait to Star at Film Festival in the Berkshires
Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel Kennedy with two of their children. GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass.—Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was six months dead by the time his 11th child, Rory Kennedy, was born.
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Preparing for the big one
A recent survey of how people are most likely to die rated asteroid impacts pretty low—something like 1 in 100,000. That’s statistically about the same probability as death by lightning or a tsunami. But there’s an obvious flaw in this predictive comparison. Lightning kills one person at a time about sixty times per year. Asteroid impacts, by contrast, probably haven’t killed anyone in thousands ...
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Another Week of GW News, May 20, 2012 [A Few Things Ill Considered]
Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week's Global Warming news roundup Read the rest of this post... | Read the comments on this post...
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Seattle crowds greet Obama during fundraising trip - Thu, 10 May 2012 PST
SEATTLE —President Barack Obama asked supporters to stick with him in this year's election and "keep moving forward."
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