Man Arrested For Stealing Bits Of Glacier For Designers Ice Cubes
Chilean authorities arrested a man for stealing ice from the Jorge Montt glacier. The stolen ice was being taken to Santiago, Chile in order to be used as designer ice cubes in upscale restaurants...
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Does This Image Make You Hungry?
Max Planck researchers have proven something scientifically for the first time that laypeople have always known: the mere sight of delicious food stimulates the appetite.
Study Indicates When Females Are Scarce, Men Spend More
From peacocks to stags, it has long been commonplace knowledge amongst evolutionary biologists that males of many animal species tend to strut their stuff more ostentatiously the more scarce their potential female mates become.
Dogs Can Read Our Intent
Dogs pick up not only on the words we say but also on our intent to communicate with them, according to a report published online in the Cell Press journal Current Biology on January 5.
Percentage Of Married US Adults Drops To Record Low
The number of Americans who are married has reached a record low of just 51 percent, and will fall to below half within a few years, according to an analysis of U.S. Census data by the Pew Research Center.
The Paradox Of Gift Giving: More Not Always Better
Holiday shoppers, take note. Marketing and psychology researchers have found that in gift giving, bundling together an expensive "big" gift and a smaller "stocking stuffer" reduces the perceived value of the overall package for the recipient.
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The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable. 
- John Kenneth Galbraith (b. 1908), U.S. economist.