moderation: Oldest Known Alien Planets —Born at Dawn of Universe 8-Billion Years Earlier than Earth — Which makes them approximately eight-billion years older than Earth. The two huge Jupiter-sized planets…
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explore-blog: The correlation between peak song activity and peak egg-laying, from a fascinating BBC documentary on why birds sing.
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frontierutopia: Instead of nerve fibers travelling willy-nilly through the brain like spaghetti, as some imaging has suggested, the new portraits reveal two-dimensional sheets of parallel fibers crisscrossing other sheets at…
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neuronympho: Secrets of Human Speech Uncovered A team of researchers at UC San Francisco has uncovered the neurological basis of speech motor control, the complex coordinated activity of tiny brain…
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collectivehistory: Samuel Reshevsky, age 8, defeating several chess masters at once in France, 1920 
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