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| Fits of fury |
| Why do quarrels go off at irrational tangents? Blame it on the chemistry of rage, says Robert Sapolsky |
| Here’s how it happens. Let’s suppose that you are male. You’ve done something piggish, stupid and insensitive to your Significant Other, as we Americans call them. So you argue. And you make things worse initially by trying to defend yourself.... |
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| Biology’s holy grail |
| Scientists are close to cracking the code of life with an advance that has far-reaching implications for the understanding, diagnosis and treatment of
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| Darwin fights god in school |
| Parents in a rural Pennsylvania town are mounting the first legal test of the controversial theory of the origin of life known as intelligent design.
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| Devil’s garden, tended by ants |
| In the song High Hopes, a lowly ant moves a rubber tree. That is absurd, of course, because anyone knows an ant cannot move a rubber tree plant
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| Playing billiards with atoms |
| It’s like playing billiards with balls that are actually clusters of atoms, far thinner than a human hair. Scientists obsessed with plodding atom
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| A really gutsy move |
Apple says its iPod music player and iTunes music store have 74 and 85 per cent of their worldwide markets. But according to Gene Munster, a Piper Jaffray analyst, the end is near. “Nobody can sustain an 80 per cent market share in a consumer e ... | Read..
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| QED: If technology fails
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My father once vowed that he would never use a cellphone in his life. Now, he swears by the gadget and thinks that he is in a mess while not carrying it. Things have changed so fast in the last 5-6 years. With the burgeoning use of technology, we are
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The fruits of war Michael White Simon & Schuster; ? 16.99... |
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In the beginning, attitudinal problems of his 14-year-old son didn’t appear anything wrong to Sadiur Rahman. The otherwise vivacious Anisur would frequently pick up fights in school and his grades showed a steady decline. Sadiur, a brick-trader ... | 
