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decision-making process. After all, if the problems are considerable, one does not want to be distracted by ...

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account for why people have engaged in religious behavior in all known cultures." Palmer and Steadman ...

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capturing the strongest game. All things being considered, the Neanderthals were skilled and highly ...

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Hammond, presenter of BBC Radio 4's All in the Mind, will discuss those conundrums like why our lives ...

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contexts, such as a smiling mother holding a baby. They all predated exposure to modern Western ...

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shows something non-obvious: We are hard-wired to avoid drowning and like all good safety systems, the ...

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that many believe was responsible for nearly all of the human population that exist outside Africa ...

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Bombard human minds with those chemicals as ultimately human body is all chemistry and physics and very ...

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seen in Québec. The "Cinderella effect," they determine, is not not inevitable- which you all ...

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started migrating 70,000 years ago. Accordingly, all previous migrations of modern humans out of Africa ...

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John
”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 3 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 13 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

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