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Cosmetics companies mince words
Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 month 2 weeks (www.nytimes.com)
The next time you pick up a bottle of shampoo or moisturizer, take a look at the label. Does it claim to contain stem cells or growth hormone? For people who hang out on this website, the thought is probably, "Wait. Laboratories have a hard enough time growing their own stem cells. Who the #@%& is $#%!headed enough to put them in a 'rejuvenating night cream'?!"
It's hype. Of course it's hype 
Secret of Newborn's First Words Revealed
kavin submitted, created time 2 months 3 weeks (www.sciencedaily.com)
A new study could explain why "daddy" and "mommy" are often a baby's first words – the human brain may be hard-wired to recognize certain repetition patterns. Using the latest optical brain imaging techniques, University of British Columbia post-doctoral fellow Judit Gervain and a team of researchers from Italy and Chile documented brain activities of twenty-two newborns (two to three days old) when exposed to recordings of made-up words 
A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers
sea-maid submitted, created time 6 months 1 week (www.pnas.org)
This study tell us that the scientists have found different structural and functional abnormalities in dyslexic readers of Chinese, a nonalphabetic language. Compared with normally developing controls, children with impaired reading in logographic Chinese exhibited reduced gray matter volume in a left middle frontal gyrus region previously shown to be important for Chinese reading and writing. 
Why Are Women Better at Language?
Sue Wu submitted, created time 8 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)
New research elucidates a biological mechanism for why girls show better language abilities than boys. 
Evolution of Counting Is No Simple Operation
Eric wu submitted, created time 10 months 1 week (sciencenow.sciencemag.org)
You may not realize it, but when you tell the grocer you'd like a half-dozen eggs for your family of six, you're using a primitive numbering system.
Now, a study of Pacific Island languages suggests that counting systems can evolve in reverse, becoming more object-specific.
This is a very interesting topic on evolution...... 


Homosexuality is not solely genetic! ...at least not in fruit flies.
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 1 week (www.eurekalert.org)
The researchers were examining a particular glutamate regulator gene solely because of the things that it does to synapses and neurotransmitters and created a line of mutant fruit flies in which this gene is inactive. During the study, they noticed that their male altered flies where buzzing around other males just as eagerly as around females. They had turned the flies bisexual. They named the gene "genderblind."
By then, though, they had a pretty good idea of how GB altered the flies' synapses and neural pathways 


Scientific American deflates misconceptions related to psychopathy
Darkfrog submitted, created time 11 months 2 weeks (www.sciam.com)
This one's not too fresh but it's good. I thought that the word "psychopathy" had been retired by the psychiatric establishment in favor of "sociopathy" (kind of like how "idiot" and "imbecile" used to be official names for people with mental impairments but aren't anymore) but it seems it's still used as a sort of "sociopathy light." It also very intelligibly explains the difference between psychopathy, psychosis and psychotic disorders, which the media in particular tends to confuse. 


Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 3 months (www.nature.com)
What I found interesting about this is that the results seem as though they would be applicable to spiritual people regardless of official religious affiliation and they are shown to be comparable to belief in a worldly justice system. The common thread seems to be something bigger than oneself.
Look at the suggestible word game carefully. It can also read, "She felt the spirit eradicate." Even without an object, that's spooky. 
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