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Re: “Racial purity” DNA test slammed as perversion, but (June 18, 2012): I had my DNA tested and it was done to discover racial charac...

Re: Study: Earth to be livable 2-3 billion years more, but not for all (Sept. 17, 2013): Recent information suggests that is increasin...

Re: Life’s ingredients could form through cometary impact, study finds (Sept. 17, 2013): I propounded this theory when I was a teenage...

Re: “Inflation” theory of infant cosmos may need revision (July 26, 2013): First, since uni means one, let’s define the universe as al...

Re: Could cancer cells’ sugar addiction be their undoing? (July 31, 2013): To the article about cancer and sugar. I have a thought tha...

Re: Did monogamy arise to prevent infanticide? (July 29, 2013): There is perhaps a compelling argument for this from the macroevolutio...

Re: Evolution punishes selfish jerks in the long run, study finds (Aug. 1, 2013): I like the article on evolution punishes the selfi...

Re: Study explores how Inca kids were drugged for sacrifice (July 29, 2013): This report seems to assume that the levels of drugs found...

Re: “Inflation” theory of infant cosmos may need revision (July 26, 2013): Several times in the history of science better instrumentati...

Re: Smart parrots solve five-step puzzle to unlock treat (July 3, 2013): I used to raise Goffin’s Cockatoos and know their curiosity. I...

Re: Was blackmail essential for marriage to evolve? (Dec. 2, 2011): How pathetic is that article about blackmail being essential for m...

Re: Being too generous may make you unpopular (June 27, 2013): It’s a very common phenomenon that people don’t like those who they per...

Re: Neanderthals may have talked-even contributed to our language, scholars claim (July 10, 2013): I was rather shocked by the amateurishn...

Re: Neanderthals may have talked-even contributed to our language, scholars claim (July 10, 2013): I have long believed that it was likely...

Re: Poor people get fewer painkillers from ER docs, study finds (June 26, 2013): I was almost shocked to read this article because it dire...

Re: Ending poverty, protecting nature go hand in hand: UN report (June 1, 2013): The omission of massive overpopulation as a driver of both...

Re: Studies may have overestimated our generosity (June 17, 2013): I was very disappointed in the methodology of the Dictator game. By maki...

Re: Eww! 95% don’t wash hands properly (June 10, 2013): I found your piece on hand-washing quite amusing. I don’t know how it is out there ...

Re: Overeating learned in infancy, study suggests (May 23, 2013): I believe there is some truth to this. I’m 68. My parents were both child...

Re: Already-approved drug tied to longer, healthy life in mice (May 25, 2013): Rapamycin’s effect on the mTOR pathway is well documented. T...

Re: Cotton may offer “eco friendly” way to clean up oil (May 15, 2013): It is a good piece of research. It has full of academic value and d...

Re: Does your physical strength influence your politics? (May 19, 2013): The article states: “…data showed that wealthy men with high upper...

Re: Killed twice in 1600s, hoax “dragon” slain again-in crea (May 8, 2013): The notion of dragons goes back even to very ancient times, and...

Re: Does your physical strength influence your politics? (May 19, 2013): The issues are very poorly framed. What matters is forced redistri...

Re: Killed twice in 1600s, hoax “dragon” slain again-in crea (May 8, 2013): These so-called cre(a)ti(o)nists are simply grasping at straws ...

Re: “Black Death” could return, study warns (March 16, 2013): I am thinking that free trade agreements might be our biggest night-mare wait...

Re: Domestic cats seen as major killers of wildlife (Jan. 29, 2013): The amount of birds and small animals killed would be put into better ...

Re: Power linked to tendency to punish harshly (Jan. 18, 2013): This can go a long way to explain the war on drug (users). I also remember ...

Re: Linkage between pot, low IQ “premature,” study says (Jan. 16, 2013): Considering that pot has been the drug of choice for the engineeri...

Re: “Mr. Mom” is not so much Mr. Bedroom, study suggests (Jan. 30, 2013): “The im­por­tance of gen­der has de­clined over time, but it con...

Re: Genes thought to affect IQ might not : It would be interesting to see correlations between this work and the work of people studying gen...

Re: Did a sea monster make an artwork… out of bones? : The case continues to improve. See: McMenamin, M. A. S. 2012. Evidence for a Triassic...

Re: Scrub jays found to react to their dead : I have witnessed the same behavior in Australian ravens. Dozens of ravens gathered in trees  ...

Re: Could dinosaurs explain why human vision differs from other mammals’? : In the third sentence of the article: "Could dinosaurs have...

Re: Are people getting dumber? : It could as well be argued that intelligence linked with formerly debilitating genetic illnesses can now be...

Re: Einstein's brain gets a new look-over : Looking at the human history, I am impressed with the high incidence of super-smart people, ...

Re: Einstein's brain gets a new look-over : Einstein is a plagiarist and a fraud. Please check : Christopher Jon Bjerknes (Albert Ei...

Re:  Stray stars may haunt vastness between galaxies : This information is crucial to understand the mass and light delay between galaxies....

Re: When can a moon harbor life? : The more popular amateur astronomy becomes, the more the word 'moon' is applied to all planetary ...

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