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7 Foods So Unsafe Even Farmers Won't Eat Them →
thesustainablelife: 7 experts in fields pertaining to both food and the environment answered one simple question: “What foods do you avoid?.” Their answers, published in an article entitled “7 Foods the Experts Won’t Eat” on Yahoo! Shine, will make you re-think food. Canned tomatoes and potatoes! oh my
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10 Gadgets That Defined 2011 →
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Scribner Books: Happy Birthday Mark Twain →
scribnerbooks: “Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now… Happy Birthday to a not-so-genteel Victorian kind of man.
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The Science of Sarcasm? Yeah, Right  →
scientists are finding that the ability to detect sarcasm really is useful. For the past 20 years, researchers from linguists to psychologists to neurologists have been studying our ability to perceive snarky remarks and gaining new insights into how the mind works. Studies have shown that exposure to sarcasm enhances creative problem solving, for instance. Children understand and use sarcasm...
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Top 5 Reasons To Give Thanks For Being Primate →
The prime rule of being primate? Family and friends matter, and reunions with them bring excitement — I’ll even say joy. From pair bonds in marmosets to kin alliances in macaque troops or gorilla groups, it’s more than the edible fruit and flowers that bind individuals together. That’s our big-brained, deep-feeling heritage. It’s woven through our human minds and our...
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Get your fix of nature before holidays with the family. Also, here’s an interesting conversation starter for the big dinner. When it comes to jumping, the Green Jumping Spider can launch themselves 20 times their body length.
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