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As many as one-in-seven couples has trouble conceiving a baby, even after having frequent, unprotected sex for at least a year. In at least half of these cases, the cause is found to lie with the man. Male infertility can be caused by several problems, including a low sperm count, abnormalities with the sperm itself…
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Scientists in Germany have opened doors in the realm of renewable energy and solar experimentation. Using a 50-foot structure and 149 industrial-grade spotlights, Kai Wieghardt and his team have created “Synlight” the “world’s largest artificial sun.” The $3.8 million structure stands…
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In its July-August issue of 2016, the Europhysics News, an online peer-review publication, published an article titled 15 years later: on the physics of high-rise building collapses in which they analyze the collapse of all three World Trade Center buildings in the attacks on September 11th. The results of their…
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 Are you happy? It’s a loaded question that makes you think. We all want to assume that on a fundamental level, yes, we most certainly are happy. But when we begin to nitpick, we soon discover there are some things that certainly don’t attribute to our overall happiness. The question brings up so many…
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 NASA’s recent discovery shed new light on what the Bible says, thus confirming that these biblical stories are in fact true. In the words of Mr. Harold Hill, the President of the Curtis engine Company in Baltimore, also a consultant in space programs: “One of the most…
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 Do you care if your brain is controlled in a good cause?Medicalxpress reports: “Researchers at the University of Zurich have identified the brain mechanism that governs decisions between honesty and self-interest. Using non-invasive brain stimulation, they could even…
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 Albert Szent-Györgyi discovered the chemical, ascorbic acid, also known as vitamin C, in the 1930s. One of Vitamin C’s chief advocates, who won twice the Nobel (Chemistry and Peace), was Linus Pauling. Pauling advocated for high doses of Vitamin C to treat various illnesses, including cancer, but was…
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  by Uri Avnery (Israeli writer and peace activist) Cui bono? – “Who benefits?” – is the first question an experienced detective asks when investigating a crime.   Since I was a detective myself for a short time in my youth, I know the meaning. Often, the first and…
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According to an article published by the Business Insider on July 7, 2017, the tensions between NATO and Russia are mounting. “With US and Russia backing opposite sides in the Syrian Civil War, relations between Moscow and NATO have continued to sink to some of their lowest levels since the end of the Cold War”, the…
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A new Dartmouth study finds that listeners are most likely to tune in when a speaker delivers the most emotional peaks of his/her narrative, as revealed by synchronous pupil dilation patterns of speakers and listeners due to shared attention. The findings are published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.…
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