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Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:
Christianity: Weekend Fisher tells us how to love someone.
Humor: (or something) Wired, on how people used to believe that beavers bit off their own testicles.
Politics: Rachel Lu, writing in The Federalist, says that pro-abortion advocates are now telling stories in defense of abortion. Lu has a sensitive and thoughtful reply, and anyone, whatever her position on abortion, should be made to think.
Science: Wired has an interesting article, with this title: "If Someone Secretly Controlled What You Say, Would Anyone Notice?" The answer, probably not. The article uses the intriguing term, cyranoid.
Wired also reports on why it's so difficult to lose an accent.
National Public radio reports that there are a lot of microbes in New York City's Central Park, including about 2,000 that hadn't been known before.

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Sunspots 481

Things I have recently spotted that may be of interest to someone else:

Christianity: "7 Signs we may be worshiping the family," instead of encouraging our family to be worshipers.  
Health: In parts of Pakistan controlled by the Taliban, polio vaccination is not being done, according to National Public Radio. NPR also reports that, even in other parts of Pakistan, keeping people from getting polio is difficult.
Humor: (Or something) Wired on how lots of human cultural groups have had the idea of werewolves. (Even from places where there are no wolves.)
(Or something) NPR reports that Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in Tennessee, has halted a program designed to make some of its workers sound less Southern.
Science:  Wired tells us that sleeping more than usual doesn't satisfy, and why.
National Public Radio reports on a significant science fair project by a sixth-grader.

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