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		<title>Early man butchered and ate the brains of children as part of his everyday diet</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Sep 2010 15:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Early man butchered and ate the brains of children as part of his everyday diet, a new study of fossil bones in Spain suggests: Among the bones of bison, deer, wild sheep and other animals, scientists discovered the butchered remains of at least 11 human children and adolescents. The bones also displayed signs of having [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advance in Quest for HIV Vaccine</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[U.S. government scientists say they have discovered three powerful antibodies, the strongest of which neutralizes 91% of HIV strains: They are now deploying the technique used to find those antibodies to identify antibodies to influenza viruses. The HIV antibodies were discovered in the cells of a 60-year-old African-American gay man, known in the scientific literature [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Terra-Forming Ascension Island</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:02:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Charles Darwin set sail aboard HMS Beagle for Ascension Island from the nearby volcanic island of St. Helena, the locals set his expectations quite low: &#8220;We know we live on a rock, but the poor people of Ascension live on a cinder.&#8221; Seven years later, Darwin&#8217;s friend, botanist Joseph Hooker, called in on Ascension [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Oliver Sacks on Vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 13:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Silberman interviews Oliver Sacks (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and An Anthropologist on Mars), on his new book, The Mind&#8217;s Eye, and his recovery from cancer of the eye: Silberman: In the book, you go on to describe some fascinating experiments you performed on your own vision, where you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Language Shape How You Think?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Aug 2010 16:32:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does your language shape how you think? That&#8217;s the claim Benjamin Lee Whorf made 70 years ago, in MIT&#8217;s Technology Review: In particular, Whorf announced, Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving a Steak through the Heart of Conventional Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:40:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Isegoria</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Roberts drives a steak [sic] through the heart of conventional wisdom — or, rather, some pork bellies: One and a half years ago, in February 2009, I got a heart scan. It’s an X-ray measurement of how calcified your arteries are. Persons with high scores are much more likely to have a heart attack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Overuse of Digital Devices May Lead to Brain Fatigue</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matt Richtel of the New York Times says that overuse of digital devices may lead to brain fatigue by replacing truly productive downtime with unproductive &#8220;micro-moments&#8221; of entertainment: At the University of California, San Francisco, scientists have found that when rats have a new experience, like exploring an unfamiliar area, their brains show new patterns of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Diet Tied to Intestinal Disease and Allergies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2010 12:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Healthy children in Europe have different gut bacteria than healthy children in Africa, because of their very different diets, and this may explain the prevalence of intestinal disease and allergies in the West: A team of researchers led by Paolo Lionetti, a pediatric gastroenterologist at Meyer Children Hospital in Florence, Italy, decided to compare the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muscles Remember Past Glory</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 19:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Muscle memory can refer to motor skills, or it can refer to how muscles recover from atrophy: Muscle cells are huge, [Kristian Gundersen, a physiologist at the University of Oslo in Norway] says. And because the cells are so big, more than one nucleus is needed to supply the DNA templates for making large amounts [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In Favor of Fever</title>
		<link>http://www.isegoria.net/2010/08/in-favor-of-fever/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:56:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Robin Hanson speaks out in favor of fever: The US spends over 17% of income, two trillion dollars a year, on medicine, mostly on new intensive treatments. You might think this was because we long ago carefully studied all the simple cheap treatments, and got as much mileage as we could from them, so now [...]]]></description>
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