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i have written about the baiji before, and probably will mention it again, but as it made headlines in CNN today, August 8, 2007… this will go down as the day the yangtze rivier dolphin was declared “extinct”. it makes me horribly sad. that we humans can so callously wipe out another sentient species… that […]

By today’s rules, I can carry on liquids in quantities of three ounces or less, unless they’re in larger bottles. But I can carry on multiple three-ounce bottles. Or a single larger bottle with a non-prescription medicine label, like contact lens fluid. It all has to fit inside a one-quart plastic bag, except for that […]

This is absolutely HUGE news: One expert said the study may be a milestone in understanding ADHD. “This is a very important study as it adds increasing evidence that ADHD is a heritable disease with genetically determined neurobiological underpinnings and adds further evidence that this is a valid mental disorder, often requiring neurobiological interventions [such […]

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The catching was slow and they looked back to check their lines. They saw what appeared to be a seal with its snout out of the water, but they didn’t think any seals were around their fishing grounds and they kept watching. Soon they realized it was a deer trying desperately to keep afloat — […]

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In the working memory task, the performance of unmedicated adults with ADHD suggests that they were not correctly updating memory with context information; medication changed this pattern, such that they began to look more like controls (actually showing more AY errors and less AX & BX errors, for those who are familiar with the task.) […]

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premise: Depending on the specific age and gender, an adolescent with an IQ of 100 was 1.5 to 5 times more likely to have had intercourse than a teen with a score of 120 or 130. Each additional point of IQ increased the odds of virginity by 2.7% for males and 1.7% for females. But […]