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		<title>Driving while blabbing</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 21:12:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many dead? Research and real-life experience prove that people die when drivers pick up the cellphone. Even worse: texting on the road!]]></description>
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		<title>Scraps of ancient textiles found</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flax, the basis for linen, was spun and dyed, and lost in the mud. More than 30,000 years later, microscopic flax fibers provide the first cord in archeological history.]]></description>
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		<title>Imitation: Better than flattery?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imitation is a social glue in human society. We like people who imitate us.  We call them friend. We will even tip them better! A new study finds similar responses in monkeys...]]></description>
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		<title>Senators, governors and other mammals&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 22:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can our evolutionary roots explain that self-destructive search for sex - and sexual companionship? Could Darwinian psychology constitute the cause home-wrecking, career-blitzing fatal attractions?]]></description>
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		<title>Phony science</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 20:18:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[New study finds 2 percent of scientists admit faking data; 14 percent say colleagues have done it. Problems are most common in drug and other medical studies.]]></description>
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		<title>Mass killings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:27:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After another mass murder -- 13 dead in Binghamton, N.Y. -- The Why Files wants to know why they pull the trigger. What are the warning signs of "rampage" shootings? Can they be prevented?]]></description>
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		<title>Body odor</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2009 20:54:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Study finds that male body odor is harder to mask, but the male nose is more easily confused. Info lends insight into human mating, and helps perfume makers.  So what’s in your deodorant?]]></description>
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		<title>After the chimp attack</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 03:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We explore the sad saga of pet primates. Are these pets psychologically good for us? For them?  Are humans and other primates trading diseases at home, and in the wild?]]></description>
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		<title>Economic abyss: Can money buy happiness?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:55:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers in positive psychology find that giving is better than receiving, that social relationships are key, and that money can - in some circumstances - buy some happiness.]]></description>
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		<title>Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:58:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carbon tax or carbon trading? Can economics battle global warming? As the United Nations gets set for (another!) pow-wow on global warming, policy wonks are focusing on two mechanisms to reduce carbon pollution. Which gets more control at a lower price: carbon tax or carbon cap-and-trade?]]></description>
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