Science wonks and wonkettes lusting for more of the hard stuff can head over to En Tequila Es Verdad for issue number 113 of the science blog carnival, Tangled Bank. I’ve got two items on there myself.
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A variant of a gene for a peptide hormone receptor has been implicated in marital discord
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“It’s like Jonestown in slow motion” -Shawn Francis Peters
Eleven-year-old Madeline Neumann, “Kara” to her parents, was very ill, but her parents, Dale and Leilani, didn’t take her to see a doctor. In fact, Kara had not seen a doctor since she was three years old. Dale believed that her illness was a test of faith, [...]
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