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Health and Physical Fitness

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The researchers measured each volunteer's energy expenditure after he or she ate and found it was highest in those volunteers who got the biggest doses of DCT – almost twice as high as in those who took the placebo. Not only that, the DCT prompted t

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When it comes to sex, we put this capacity to very good—or at least, very frequent—use. In a now-classic, pre-Internet-porn (I’ll get to that later on) study by British evolutionary biologists Robin Baker and Mark Bellis, male university students wer

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Ted Talks

Michael Shermer says the human tendency to believe strange things -- from alien abductions to dowsing rods -- boils down to two of the brain's most basic, hard-wired survival skills. He explains what they are, and how they get us into trouble.

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godlikeproductions.com

States receiving federal grants provided for in the bill would be required to annually track the Body Mass Index of all children ages 2 through 18. The grant-receiving states would be required to mandate that all health care providers in the state de

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Boing Boing

An AP Psychology teacher wrote a song enumerating several types of cognitive bias -- the blindspots in our thinking -- for his students. It's catchy, educational, and it might save you from getting conned, voting for a bastard, or having a stupid fig

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Reuters

Vitamin D is vital in activating human defenses and low levels suffered by around half the world's population may mean their immune systems' killer T cells are poor at fighting infection, scientists said. The findings by Danish researchers could help

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AP

Germs in the gut may help drive appetite, says new research into the link between obesity and bacteria. Previous studies have shown overweight people and normal-weight people harbor different types and amounts of microbes that naturally live in the i

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SMCC

Survival preparedness is more than just stocking up on food and supplies. Any plan should include an exercise routine designed to prepare oneself for an off-grid lifestyle.

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arclein

According to a report just published in the February issue of Archives of General Psychiatry, people at extremely high risk of developing a psychosis were found to be less likely to develop psychotic disorders after just 12 weeks of taking fish oil c

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Time magazine

Itching for a good after-school science experiment? Researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey have created a homemade bedbug trap using a plastic cat-food dish, an insulated jug and some dry-ice pellets. According

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