Why Does God Love Beards?

Removal of restrictions can decrease music piracy, study suggests

We discount the pain of people we don’t like

How Long Do the Dead Survive on the Road? Carcass Persistence Probability and Implications for Road-Kill Monitoring Surveys Northern Alberta hadrosaur called a new species

Particles appear to travel faster than light: OPERA experiment reports anomaly in flight time of neutrinos

Why Self-Induced Pain Feels Less Painful than Externally Generated Pain: Distinct Brain Activation Patterns in Self- and Externally Generated Pain

Drunken moose found tangled in a tree in Sweden

Chocolate consumption and cardiometabolic disorders: systematic review and meta-analysis

Insightful Problem Solving in an Asian Elephant Willpower depletion and the brownie decision

Tomatoes, at long last Originally uploaded by morecoffeeplease. They’ve been sitting there greenly for several weeks now and I was starting to lose hope that they’d ever turn red. Of course, they’re finally doing so at a very inopportune time. They’re so pretty! I wish I liked them. I’ll enjoy feeding them to the rest […]

Escaping gravity’s clutches: Information could escape from black holes after all, study suggests Dark beer has more iron than pale beer or non-alcoholic beer

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Well: How Chocolate Can Help Your Workout

Full moon indicates impending danger from lion attack, study shows Treadmill tests for heavy armour To win at rock-paper-scissors, put on a blindfold

Does Chinese chocolate taste better than Swiss? Depends on when you find out Swarm of Jellyfish Shuts Down a Scottish Nuclear Power Plant

Men steal stuffed alligator, go to mud party. Alcohol may have been a factor Mosquitoes attracted to beer drinkers, researchers say That’s One Huge Wombat Whining May Be World’s Most Annoying Sound

Physicists: Universe Almost Certainly Not a Hologram

Time-Traveling Male Sea Monkeys Make Bad Mates Dogs Discriminate Identical Twins Emergency department visits during an Olympic gold medal television broadcast

Oh, Crap! Moscow Mulls Terrorist-Proof Toilets Extreme Conservation Leads to Recovery of the Virunga Mountain Gorillas The return of measles: Where did we go wrong?

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