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Two British doctors examined ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35259 Vietnam's Mekong Delta has proven a treasure trove of undiscovered and rare species, according to a newly released World Wildlife Fund report. Between 1997 and 2007, scientists discovered 1,068 species including a cyanide-producing fuchsia-colored millipede, a rat thought to have gone extinct 11 million years ago and a fuzzy spider ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35255 Naughty kids who tease their little siblings or sneak laxatives into the family gingerbread men could wake up Christmas morning to the nose-pinching smell of seaweed in their stockings. Tennessee professor Gerald Smith gave Santa Claus a ring-a-ling up at the North Pole to ask that he swap out coal ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35253 Santa's sleigh could haul a heavy load in a couple years if NASA goes through with a plan to give away authentic spacecrafts after the space agency's shuttle program closes shop in 2010. NASA will donate two space shuttle orbiters and at least six unassembled space shuttle main engine display ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35172 Little Sam Esquibel will have quite the story to share at parties when he grows up after doctors discovered a foot growing inside the infant's brain. Surgeons initially thought the growth seen on an ultrasound was a brain tumor, but when Dr. Paul Grabb began Sam's life-saving surgery, he found ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35170 It's hard to imagine that the woman who seduced two of Rome's most famous emperors could have been anything but a hottie, but painstaking research and computer technology have produced what Egyptologists believe to be the most accurate portrayal of Cleopatra to date. The result appears to be the product ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=35123 Ever wake up blushing from a particularly vivid dream and then been thankful that no one will ever know what that smirk you're sporting all day is really about? 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Those history ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34926 As if this year doesn't feel long enough as it is, an extra second will be ticked off before what we hope will be a better 2009 is ushered in by old Father Time. The International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service has deemed it necessary to add the second ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34859 We all know that little guy who is a wee bit sensitive about his size and, hence, his masculinity, but give your vertically-challenged buddy a lift today by passing on the news that, if he were a spider he'd be a stud. An article from the current issue of the ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34817 Some would like this joyous holiday season to last forever,and some would like to alter their consciousness from Turkey Day to New Year's, but I digress. 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Small quakes are typical along the New Madrid Seismic Zone in the northeast, but the central region lacks a history of seismic activity, ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34609 The November 25 consultation with the UN might have looked like something out of Armageddon without the fabulous Aerosmith soundtrack, but the members of the international Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation weren't posing for any cameras. Experts are pushing for the UN to compile a plan of attack on NEOs ... http://truemors.nowpublic.com/?p=34557