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Three months ago, I received an email informing me that a high school friend, Pat, had died.

How much of what you think about food and eating is wrong? You might be surprised

By Daniel Cressey of Nature magazine In 2008, the world's media was captivated by a study apparently showing that cows like to align themselves with magnetic fields. [More]

Government report says intentional poisonings behind almost 15,000 emergency room visits annually

When the ensemble of cesium beam and hydrogen maser atomic clocks strike 11:11 today at Boulder’s National Institute of Standards and Time nothing will happen. Never mind the fact that the numbers are both binary and identical and that the square of any cluster of 1′s is going to be palindromic as well.

People who attended services frequently were 56 percent more likely to have positive outlook, study showed

In the series “A Modest Proposal,” my colleagues and I will propose inventions and projects that I think are eminently doable and would love made real. A Star Trek communicator badge [More]

New guidelines suggest screening before puberty, being more direct about child's weight

Brandwashed: Tricks Companies Use to Manipulate Our Minds and Persuade Us to Buy by Martin Lindstrom. Crown Business, 2011 [More]

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"The military has learned that when you seed an economy, people will put down their guns," says Connie Duckworth . "That’s why the Marines asked me to don 30 pounds of body armor to meet with them in Helmand Province in Afghanistan," where she had established Arzu Studio Hope , an artisanal rug manufacturer that employs 1,000 women, who in turn support 4,000 family members in Afghanistan. Afghanistan is officially the worst place in the world for women, according to a 2011 study by Thompson Reuters Trust Law.

Tough economic times mean states have less to spend on care for mentally ill

First-of-its-kind study finds increased mortality among older TIA sufferers

The series Too Hard for Science? discusses ideas scientists would love to explore that they think are difficult or impossible to investigate. The Scientist: Robert Stickgold, director of the Center for Sleep and Cognition at Harvard Medical School

The verdict is in: Google+'s new brand pages are worth your time. Here's why signing your business up will be an important social media investment. Just when a marketing strategy in 140 characters or less started to seemed normal, the social media scene for businesses completely changed this week.