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Macbeth's Curse: Link Between Sleeplessness And Paranoia Identified SAVE
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The study - the first to examine insomnia and persecutory thoughts - found that in the general population individuals with insomnia were five times more likely to have high levels of paranoid thinking than people who were sleeping well. In an extension of the research, over half the individuals attending psychiatric services for severe paranoia were found to have clinical insomnia.TAGS
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How Did the Giant Flying Reptiles of the Jurassic Period Take Off? | 80beats | Discover Magazine SAVE
When the pterosaurs’ strong wings were folded they created “knuckles” that the animals rested on in four-legged stance, he says, which allowed them to take off in a motion akin to leap-frogging.TAGS
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Mystery Roar from Faraway Space Detected SAVE
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Detailed analysis of the signal ruled out primordial stars or any known radio sources, including gas in the outermost halo of our own galaxy.Other radio galaxies also can't account for the noise – there just aren't enough of them. "You'd have to pack them into the universe like sardines," said study team member Dale Fixsen of the University of Maryland. "There wouldn't be any space left between one galaxy and the next."TAGS
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07 JAN 09
Steampunk: the future of the past | Books | guardian.co.uk SAVE
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Steampunk gives us Seventy-Two Letters, a piercing look at the corruption that accompanies scientific research and the ways technology oppresses the underclass in society. That it does this through the metaphor of automata driven by Kabbalistic magic whilst telling a perfectly crafted short story is trademark Chiang.TAGS
