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While Asian trade mostly stems from a desire for exotic meat and medicinal ingredients, in Colombia the pet trade rules the market
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Companies are turning to data to help them hire new workers, and compare how their employees are doing
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Stiffening arteries could cause bleeding in the brain
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Some of the earliest ancient vertebrates were too squishy to leave easily identifiable remains that lasted through millennia, so researchers are creating a rot look-book
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It's a magnitude 7 earthquake, and it's been rocking New Zealand's capital since January
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Luckily, it seems that many Tokyoites aren't buying into the endangered treats, which sell at around $37 for 500 grams
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Lions are the king of the plains. Tigers rule the jungle. But face to face, which would win?
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Better Place burned through $850 million before crashing and burning, but the profitable Tesla just repaid its government loans nearly 10 years early
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Setting up healthy new habits, not controlling your behavior when stressed, may be the more effective way to cut back on eating or spending sprees
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Through decades of excavation near their cottage Anton and Maria Chobot unearthed artifacts of the Clovis people
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Like a superhero of the coiffe, Janet Stephens spends her days as a regular hair dresser and her nights recreating the hairstyles of ancient Rome
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A linguist and editor at The Week, turns monosyllabic grunts into long, fancy, science words
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Hundreds of thousands of text fragments chronicle everything from marriage dowries to shopping lists to ancient religious texts
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Forecasters are predicting a hurricane season even more active than last year's
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The popular 46-foot-tall inflatable art installation returns to Victoria Harbor
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That same gene change that gives white tigers their snowy coat also affects some fish, chickens, horses and even European humans
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In just a few years, cockroaches evolved to avoid our poisons
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Thirty-nine percent had a moderate to strong bias against overweight people, and 25 percent of them did not realize they were biased
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While there may not be money laying around to fix bridges, there are certainly bridges laying around that need fixing
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Research has shown that sleep disturbance might be one warning sign of neurodegeneration—like insomnia, sleep apnea, drowsiness and animal-packed dreams
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