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Ketamine Perks Up

05/10/2012

Many chronically depressed and treatment-resistant patients experience immediate relief from symptoms after taking small amounts of the drug ketamine. ...

Modern Day Mesmerism

04/10/2012

Many people are familiar with ‘Hypnotism’ in it’s various forms such as Stage Hypnosis and Hypno-therapies, and its modern hyper-packaged cousin ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’....

Microbial Music, Biomechanical Bebop

01/10/2012

Microbes make music. And it's not bad either....

Nettle Cloth reveals Bronze-Age Trade Routes

30/09/2012

Strontium analysis of ancient nettle fibres reveal bronze age trade routes ...

Chocolate Makes Snails Smart

29/09/2012

Training snails is easier when you feed them chocolate. 'Fetch!' (waits...)...

Prison inmates overuse Ointment. Study asks why.

29/09/2012

The first study to report on the widespread misuse of topical antibiotics found that 59 percent of male and 40 percent of female maximum-security prison inmates are using over-the-counter ointments,...

Fish Rapist Hooks Up

28/09/2012

A newly-discovered fish species in eastern Mexico overcomes female sexual resistance by evolving a four-hooked penis. Charming....

Nazi Meteorite Statue Discovery!

27/09/2012

Ernst Schafer and his expedition of SS members must have believed they'd hit the quasi-spiritual cosmic jackpot when they discovered the Iron Man statue to the god Vaisravana in 1938. Particularly...

NASA Deep Space Image

26/09/2012

Astronomers have assembled a new, improved portrait of mankind’s deepest-ever view of the universe....

Live Long and Whimper: Castration increases Longevity

25/09/2012

The chance of living beyond the age of 100 was up to 130 times greater for Korean eunuchs than it is for uncastrated men in developed countries...

Jurassic Bark: Return of the Prehistoric Forest

23/09/2012

Global climate change means that recently discovered ancient forests in Canada's extreme north could one day return. aleomagentic analysis involves looking at how the Earth's magnetic field has...

Welfare Greed

19/09/2012

A Danish researcher has compared two of the most different welfare systems in the western world. Despite the differences, the research shows surprising similarities in the way in which people in the...

Crustaceans Remake Finding Nemo (sorta)

16/09/2012

With sea ice in the Arctic melting to record lows in summer months, marine animals living there face dramatic changes to their environment. Yet some crustaceans, previously thought to spend their...

Extreme Winters: Advance Warning

15/09/2012

Severe UK winters, like the 'big freeze' of 2009/10, can now be better forecast months in advance using the Met Office's latest model. A new study, published today, Friday 14 September, in IOP...

Hot as Hell, But Where’s the Hottest?

14/09/2012

"This investigation demonstrates that, because of continued improvements in meteorology and climatology, researchers can now reanalyze past weather records in much more detail and with greater...

Disgusting! Sexual Arousal Makes Us Less Squeamish

13/09/2012

Well, we've all done things in the heat of passion that, in other circumstances, would seem a touch yucky (now give that hairbrush a good wash, madam). Actually, in the cold light of morning, the...

Gut Feeling. Surgeons Leave 4000 Objects Inside Patients

11/09/2012

The swab, which was boring its way into the rectum, was clearly visible on a CT scan. Removal of the swab resolved her symptoms. Well, here's a word for you: 'gossypium'. And it refers to the...

Trickle Up

08/09/2012

Exceptional upward mobility in the US is a myth, international studies show. ...

LEDs winning Energy Race.

07/09/2012

Today's light-emitting diode light bulbs have a slight environmental edge over compact fluorescent lamps. And that gap is expected to grow significantly as technology and manufacturing methods...

Reusing London’s Olympic Drug Labs

06/09/2012

London Olympics anti-doping labs set for first-of-a-kind repurposing...

Soon Come: Male birth control on the way.

06/09/2012

Attention men: The day may be coming soon when you can take your own birth control pill with no side effects, according to a study done by a group of scientists that includes a Texas A&M University...

Sex and Women, It’s a Magazine Thing. Or not.

05/09/2012

"Our results suggest that the complex and sometimes conflicting representations of female sexuality proliferating in the mass media and popular culture could potentially have both empowering and...

Apple iPod Touch and Adult Autism

04/09/2012

Amsterdam, NL, September 3, 2012 – Only 15% of adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States have some form of paid work. Difficulties related to cognition, behavior,...

Glass Half Full?

02/09/2012

The speed at which an alcoholic beverage is drunk will influence the level of intoxication experienced, and also the number of drinks consumed in a single drinking session. Therefore, slowing...

The ‘Buffy Effect’ and Violent Media

31/08/2012

"Positive depictions of women challenge negative stereotypes even when the content includes sexuality and violence. In this way Ferguson reminds us that viewers often process popular media portrayals...

Making a Cult of Yourself: Hubbard Vs Crowley [Conclusion]

31/08/2012

The last years of Hubbard’s life saw him deposed as leader and reduced to a figurehead in a de facto coup, led by young scientologists who had actually been born into the cult. Their argument being...

Fringe, It’s Quatertastic!

29/08/2012

Insectoid Martian colonizers buried for millions of years under an East End tube station, hauntings by ghosts of extra-terrestrials, biological food vats that turn out to be alien life forms...

Hubbardites Vs Crowleyites Pt 3

24/08/2012

If the current management of the Church of Scientology were not so keen to airbrush all aspects of its founder’s life and work we would have a much clearer idea of his motives for infiltrating...

Sexy Sea Slugs Take the Pain

23/08/2012

They keep having sex even when they don't need to for reproductive purposes. They keep on having sex despite the act being 'an extravagant ritual that involves a syringe-like penile appendage that...

Turmeric: Virus Killer

21/08/2012

"I know this works. I know it works because I have seen it happen in real life," Narayanan says. "I eat it every day. I make it a point of adding it to vegetables I cook. Every single day."...

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