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We Are Thisclose to Grafting Live Heads onto Dead Bodies, Immortality

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Mark Shrayber and 91 others

Remember those people who had their heads cryogenically frozen because they wanted to be reborn into a world in which scientists knew how to bring them back to life? Oh, ho we laughed and laughed. But now, out tears of mirth shall turn into tears of sadness as all of us realize how close we are to living forever. » 2/26/15 11:00pm Thursday 11:00pm

Finally, an Explanation for Why You Eat Like a Monster When High

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Mark Shrayber and 252 others

The last time I was high I had a panic attack. But I got over that panic attack with an industrial-size bag of Bugles, a gallon of ice cream and a triple dose of benzos. Science has already explained why benzos help, but now we know a little more about why you get so goddamn hungry when you're faded as hell. » 2/20/15 12:00pm 2/20/15 12:00pm

One Weird Trick Female Animals Use to Control Who Gets Them Pregnant

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Kaitlyn Tierney and 141 others

Much like the United States Congress, the history of science is overwhelmingly white and male, and unsurprisingly, this has led to a pretty significant lag time in scientific understanding of things that relate to women. When it comes to animal sexual selection, we know a lot about how and why males compete for female… » 2/19/15 2:10pm 2/19/15 2:10pm

Should You Ditch Fairytales and Teach Your Daughter Science Instead?

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Tracy Moore and 236 others

Here's a thought: Instead of filling your daughter's head with nonsensical fairytales, how about filling it with real-world facts—science!—and see if you can't foster a love for a subject that's still and notoriously more encouraged in boys. This is the subject of an essay by Wendy Thomas Russell at PBS NewsHour, and… » 2/06/15 4:50pm 2/06/15 4:50pm

Doctors Right, Politicians Wrong on Prescribing Abortion Drugs

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Anna Merlan and 165 others

Hey, wow, who could've predicted this: a new study on mifepristone and misoprostol, the two drugs taken together to induce an abortion, shows that it's perfectly safe to use a lower dosage of the drugs than the FDA recommends. Doctors have been saying that since at least 2001. It's almost as though their medical… » 1/26/15 9:35pm 1/26/15 9:35pm

I'm Bill Nye, and This Is How I Work

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Kate Dries shared a post by Andy Orin

For many of us Bill Nye is part of our childhoods, playing that crucial role as educator and illuminator of science when our impressionable minds might not have thought to ask why. With his television show he taught us why science is amazing by examining the details of how everything works, and he continues to be an… » 1/21/15 5:26pm 1/21/15 5:26pm

How Female Animals Choose Which Male Animals Get to Bang Them

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Kaitlyn Tierney and 256 others

Choosing a mate is a funny thing. While other animal species are probably less likely to make the poor alcohol-fueled choices most of us regret, albeit fondly—and less likely still to wake up in a hungover fog in a strange place the next morning, grabbing articles of clothing up off the floor and checking the waste… » 1/09/15 1:50pm 1/09/15 1:50pm

Drunk Birds Sing Drunkenly, Science Says

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Anna Merlan and 27 others

A new study has found that when you get zebra finches totally wasted, they become noticeably worse at singing. They probably think they sound awesome, though. Then they probably want to fly somewhere to get little bird-sized burritos before crying into a bird-sized phone to some ex-birdfriend, before spending the rest… » 12/29/14 7:15pm 12/29/14 7:15pm

Obama Breaks All the Rules, Wears a Tiara With the Girl Scouts

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Mark Shrayber and 101 others

So much for "not putting things on your head if you're president." Obama broke his own rules (but not the rules of fashion, which demand a tiara on all occasions) by putting on a Tiara to pose with the girl scouts. I don't know, I'd put on a tiara too — if they weren't already required here — for a couple of Samoas. » 12/25/14 2:30pm 12/25/14 2:30pm

Study: Women Are More Empathetic Toward Their Partner Than Men

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Ellie Shechet and 362 others

In terrible, not particularly shocking news for heterosexual women worldwide, Griffith University and the University of Queensland in Australia just announced research demonstrating that women have more empathy in relationships than men. (By the way, I think we can all agree that every great scientific finding begins… » 12/17/14 5:20pm 12/17/14 5:20pm

How to Drink All Night at the Holiday Party and Not Be That Guy

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Emma Carmichael shared a post by Brent Rose

Listen, drinking all night is not healthy. But it's holiday party season, that perfect storm of open bar and all of your colleagues waiting to see who will be this year's obnoxious, puking, passed out and/or dead person at the party. Don't be that guy. » 12/12/14 5:21pm 12/12/14 5:21pm

First off, let's review the science of drunk. In order to survive…
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