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Federal guidelines for routine mammography may be putting women at needless risk for breast cancer, researchers say

Osama Bin Laden is dead . At least, that's what we've been told, and I tend to believe such things. But how do they know it's him

In Moby Duck , Donovan Hohn tracks the fate of 28,000 plastic bath toys (“rubber” ducks, frogs, turtles and beavers) across the Northwest Coast to their origins in China and even through the North West Passage. But how did these bath toys come to be spread on the shores of Alaska, Washington, Hawaii and Russia? On January 10th 1992, the Ever Laurel, a large container cargo ship, was caught in a storm in the North Pacific with severe waves rolling her from side to side.

For the author of Moby-Duck , Donovan Hohn , it all started with a school assignment. In 2008, he challenged his journalism class to find the "archaeology of the ordinary." A student, known to be a bit of an odd one, wrote his assignment on his lucky rubber duck.

Machine readable congressional transcripts will bring the power to find political gaffes to everyone. Forget leaked cables: there's enough juicy political nonsense lurking in the public record to satisfy the 24-hour news cycle until 2012

After thigh fat sucked out, fat returned to the upper body, shoulders, abdomen

Here's the first interactive word cloud we've seen that captures the sense of the Internet as a living, breathing thing. They first caught our attention last week, during the royal wedding--which is saying something. "How does Twitter see the Royal Wedding?" asked The Guardian over at its data blog, and it answered the question with an interactive image featuring most-used words on Twitter--Kate, William, watching, moment, and so on

The geopolitical ramifications are, of course, the vastly more important ones, but the world economy shifted slightly last night as word of Osama Bin Laden's death hit the airwaves. If the markets are accurate, we're looking at world where there is less unrest in the Middle East, and, generally, less of a chance of everything coming completely apart at the seams.

If the solar system were a Peanuts cartoon, the role of Pigpen would be played by a comet.

If you speak multiple languages, you might have multiple personalities.

Dr. Phil speaks with Chris Wragge about the issues faced by blended families.

Osama Bin Laden has been proclaimed dead from a gunshot wound to the head.

Seemingly minor sores can harbor dangerous staph bacteria. Here's what to look for on your skin

"The United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden," President Barack Obama has just announced.

We learned all kinds of things from our parents--manners, safety, housekeeping, how to make a cake, how to pump our legs to make ourselves go high on a swing and where to find crayfish in a creek. As they showed us how to reach these small successes in our daily life, they also taught us science knowledge--even though they may not have known a lot about psychology, physiology, chemistry, physics or animal adaptation. In learning by doing, young children get support for their later formal education: they build a set of experiences that they can recall and relate to new information in middle school science classes and beyond.