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Covers:  Life Sciences, anything about the brain, psychology, addiction, health and wellness, sustainable energy, and cool ocean explorers
Doesn't Cover: Animals, space, physics, and technology (unless it's biotechnology)
New York Times health and wellness reporter. Confusing you with the silent 'n' in my name 🇺🇸🇸🇬🇵🇰🌎
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How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code

How We Save Face--Researchers Crack the Brain's Facial-Recognition Code

Scientific American — Our brains have evolved to recognize and remember faces. As infants, one of the first things we learn is to look at the faces of those around us, respond to eye contact and mimic facial expressions. As adults, this translates to an ability to recognize human faces better and faster than other visual stimuli.
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Oceanography: The Offshore Wind Energy Boom

Oceanography: The Offshore Wind Energy Boom

thepuristonline.com — By Knvul Sheikh Thirty miles off the tip of Long Island lies the site of the future South Fork Wind Farm. Though it won't be visible from Hamptons beaches, the farm will allow East Hampton to meet all its electricity needs with renewable energy by 2020.
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Yes, You Too Can Alter Your Food's DNA at This Community Lab in Fort Greene

Yes, You Too Can Alter Your Food's DNA at This Community Lab in Fort Greene

ediblebrooklyn.com — This story is part of an ongoing series about technology's effects on our food supply.
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There's a New .Health Domain and It Could Save You From Fake Medicine

There's a New .Health Domain and It Could Save You From Fake Medicine

Vice — Looking for health information online usually feels like casting your line in a swamp of "alternative" treatments and snake oil. But the folks behind a new domain-.health-want to help people identify legitimate sources of medical information.
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The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate

The Science That Could Make You Crave Broccoli More Than Chocolate

The Atlantic — Neurogastronomy wants to rewire how people perceive flavors-and may be able to help those who have lost their sense of taste.
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Charting the volcanic eruptions that are pushing our world apart

Charting the volcanic eruptions that are pushing our world apart

Popular Science — Colin Devey launched his volcano-hunting career on land, studying a 66-million-year-old lava flow that once covered half of India. But in 1987, he scored an empty bunk on a Tahitian research cruise. Though it's hard to see volcanic rock on the seafloor, he found the landscape geologically simple.
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Scholars describe exodus from Syria

Scholars describe exodus from Syria

Science Magazine — After militants burned down his house outside Damascus in late 2013, Moustafa* faced a bitter choice: "Either join the fight or have your silence taken to mean support for the other side," he says. The intellectual property law researcher at the University of Damascus found neither option palatable, so he fled Syria.
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Finally, You Can See Dinosaurs in All Their Feathered Glory

Finally, You Can See Dinosaurs in All Their Feathered Glory

news.nationalgeographic.com — At first glance, it may be hard to see how the ducks you feed, the pigeons you dodge, or the peacocks you admire have anything in common with the "terrible lizards" portrayed in iconic dinosaur movies such as Jurassic Park. But many scientists now believe that modern birds are living dinosaurs.
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Is keeping up with K2 and other forms of "fake weed" a pipe dream? " Scienceline

Is keeping up with K2 and other forms of "fake weed" a pipe dream? " Scienceline

scienceline.org — A racing heartbeat, agitation, intense hallucinations and psychotic episodes are just some side effects of new designer drugs sold as K2, Spice and fake weed. Known as synthetic cannabinoids because they roughly mimic the effects of cannabis, the drugs are cheaper and more powerful than marijuana.
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