Other fascinating tidbits:
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A government model projected that all U.S. adults will be overweight by 2048; doctors warned of a coming plague of superlice; and endocrine scientists hoped to establish whether New Jersey causes cancer.
Australian aboriginal children who are ignorant of numbers and have no use for counting can nevertheless count.
Researchers observed that sleeping deer and grazing cows generally align their bodies along the earth’s north–south magnetic axis.
Vegetarianism leads to brain shrinkage.
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source:
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2008/11/0082281
Science: what
can't it study?