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Science Daily News Feed New Scientist News on KurzweilAI.net BGG’s Pandora America’s Finest News SourceI finally finished reading Dr. James Ketchum’s hefty hardback tome, Chemical Warfare Secrets Almost Forgotten at the dizzying pace of about 3-5 pages per night. Speaking of dizzying (sorry, that’s an awful segue but I feel compelled), this thoroughly enjoyable memoir is primarily about the Edgewood Arsenal psychiatrist’s 10-plus years of work in the U.S. [...]
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At least, it seems so according to this article in Psychology Today: Ten Politically Incorrect Truths About Human Nature. The article contains excerpts from a forthcoming book called, “Why Beautiful People Have More Daughters.” It seems like quite a few points in this book focus on the fact that practically everything humans do boils down [...]
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