NYTimes article claims that Clean Air Act prevents crime

Darkfrog submitted, created time 1 year 2 months (www.nytimes.com)

We have yet another explanation for the drop in the American crime rate in the mid-1990's: This article cites a study proposing that lead causes brain damage of a sort that makes children less intelligent and more impulsive, that this makes the resulting teenagers more likely to commit crimes, and that the main source of this lead during the twentieth century was not paint but leaded gasoline.

The declining crime rate, she says, matches the declining average lead content in American blood, but with a twenty-year lag

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Snake Eats Toxic Toad and Steals its Poison

penguin submitted, created time 1 year 11 months (www.livescience.com)

The Asian snake Rhabdophis tigrinus is one tough customer. Not only can it swallow toxic toads and live to tell. It also uses the toad’s poison for its own defense, new research shows. And rather than deploying the toxin, the snake uses it as the biological equivalent of waving a busted gun.

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