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Thursday, April 8, 2010

Odds and Sods

Odds and Sods
From empty nests to slow wits, there's little evidence for the stereotypes of middle age, says Barbara Strauch in The Secret Life of the Grown-up Brain

A Cookeville, Tennessee man who threw gasoline onto his girlfriend and chased her with a cigarette lighter is going to jail for six years.

Just about anything is printed on a T-shirt, but a certain slogan has sparked a fight over free speech at a Nashville, Tennessee high school.

If you want to shell a walnut, it helps to have a nutcracker. And if you want to digest seaweed, it helps to have the right enzymes. Now, a study in the journal Nature shows that Japanese people--but not North Americans--have what it takes to eat their sushi, and digest it, too.

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