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Octopuses possess a chemical that prevents self-sucking, and can differentiate other octopuses’ severed tentacles from their own, which they rarely eat. Piscivory was reported among spiders on all continents save…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Four new carnivorous sponges, fourteen new dancing frogs, twenty-four new caterpillar-mummifying wasps, and one new nickel-hyperaccumulator plant were described. Three subspecies of yellow-shouldered bat were elevated to species. Hawfinches (Coccothraustes…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Professional musicians and the general population can identify the best orchestras from silent video footage but not from sound recordings; lesbians are better at guessing the sexual orientation of other…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Iowa researchers found that viva voce voting gives loud voices roughly forty times the weight of normal voices. Some Chinese parents are confused and upset by the trend of their…

The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

by Trevor Quirk,

Alan Lightman on the theory of everything, technology as mediator of human experience, and empathizing with the religious impulse

The Congressional Research Service Teaches Science to Congress

by Wayne Biddle,

A study in forced neutrality

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

A compromised refrigerator was sending out spam, and electronic tongues tasted the grapes of Valencia, where engineers created yogurt from the milk of nuts. Cashew cheese from Sacramento was recalled…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

The cost of an acquisition falls by 15.4 percent for each female director on a company’s board, materialistic Israelis experience higher levels of post-traumatic stress following public violence, and extroverted children…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Danes who have recently drunk Sprite are 10 percent less likely than those who have recently drunk Sprite Zero to support the welfare state, 4 percent of Swiss boys have been molested…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Women’s drinking in parks was associated with male-on-female intimate-partner violence, while men’s drinking quietly at home in the evening was associated with female-on-male violence. Among federally licensed gun retailers, 98.9 percent…

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by Rafil Kroll-Zaidi,

Attentive fathers tend to have smaller testicles, pornography makes disagreeable Danish men more sexist, 61 percent of Papua New Guinean men are rapists, and 92 percent of Mexicans are relaxed…

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The Accidental Universe: The World You Thought You Knew

The Congressional Research Service Teaches Science to Congress

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