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The reptilian complex
Triune brain From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search The triune brain is a model of the evolution of the vertebrate forebrain and behavior proposed by the American physician and neuroscientist Paul D. MacLean. MacLean originally formulated his model in the 1960s and propounded … Continue reading
Dinosauroid
This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons. Information from its description page there is shown below. Commons is a freely licensed media file repository. You can help. In 1982, Dale Russell, then curator of vertebrate fossils at the National Museum of Canada in Ottawa, … Continue reading
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How Caterpillars turn into Butterflies
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California Bans Unvaccinated Children from Class
Anthony Gucciardi Activist Post September 20, 2011 If your child hasn’t received the whooping cough vaccine, he or she is now banned from attending class at many California schools. Despite legitimate religious or personal health reasons for rejecting the whooping … Continue reading
GOD’S WIFE EDITED OUT OF THE BIBLE — ALMOST
http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html By Jennifer Viegas Fri Mar 18, 2011 07:00 AM ET THE GIST God, also known as Yahweh, had a wife named Asherah, according to a British theologian. Amulets, figurines, inscriptions and ancient texts, including the Bible, reveal Asherah’s once prominent … Continue reading
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Super-Earth
Super-Earth: Astronomers Find a Watery New Planet An international has spotted a new planet 2.7 times bigger than Earth, circling a dim red star called GJ 1214, just 40 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus. Back in the mid-1990s, when … Continue reading
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Oxygen finally spotted in space
One of astronomy’s longest-running “missing persons” investigations has concluded: astronomers have found molecular oxygen in space. While single atoms of oxygen have been found alone or incorporated into other molecules, the oxygen molecule – the one we breathe – had … Continue reading
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DIRTY POOL
Bathing water at Vegas ‘dayclubs’ has ‘a lot of urine,’ some bacteria BY MELISSA ARSENIUK SUNDAY, JULY 24, 2011 What happens in Vegas’ pools, stays in Vegas’ pools — and that’s not necessarily a good thing. Long known for its … Continue reading
Mystery Planet
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,2049641,00.html?xid=rss-mostpopular - TimeScience Mystery Planet: Is a Rogue Giant Orbiting Our Sun? By Michael D. Lemonick Wednesday, Feb. 16, 2011 The quest for Planet X always starts out with celestial objects behaving badly. Astronomers notice that a known planet, or a bunch … Continue reading
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