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May 3, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Hunt For Elusive Waves Heats Up In the next five years or so, scientists are poised to discover proof that space and time can wrinkle in the form of gravitational waves. These waves were predicted almost 100 years ago by Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, but have yet to be seen. Continue reading... Alan Alda Calls On Scientists To Cut It Out WATCH: Amazing Robotic Fly Hovers Like The Real Thing THIS WEEKEND: Remnants Of Celebrated Comet Light Up Sky Has Century-Old Tunguska Mystery Finally Been Solved? WATCH: Scholars Find Evidence Of Cannibalism At Jamestown LOOK: The 10 Most Selective Medical Schools Facial Hair Study Reveals Look Women Like Most Has Century-Old Tunguska Mystery Finally Been Solved? Facial Hair Study Reveals Look Women Like Most LOOK: The 10 Most Selective Medical Schools SOLVED: Mystery Of Shooting That Killed Confederate General ALLEN FRANCES Don't People in Chronic Pain Have Enough to Deal With? DSM-5 represents a wholesale, imperial medicalization of normality. So many new and untested diagnoses; so many reduced thresholds for the old ones. Pretty soon everyone will have a diagnosis and many will have a whole bunch of them. Continue reading... MICHAEL LARGO Celebrating Animals We try to imagine how animals see the world, but even our pets are mysterious to us. However, understanding the way their eyes work, or their sense of smell, for example, it helps us to appreciate them even more and adds a measure of empathy, if nothing else. Continue reading... DAN_WEISS Runaway Selection and the Cellophane Rabbi Unwittingly, some components of Ronald Fisher's theory of runaway selection can aptly describe the emergence of exaggerated religious traits as well. Take for example the recent photo of an orthodox Jewish man ensconced in a full-size plastic bag during a flight to Tel Aviv. Continue reading... MARIO LIVIO The Hubble Space Telescope at 23 When the Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990, the original idea was that it would operate for 10 years. That period was later extended to 15 years. Well, on April 24, Hubble celebrated 23 years since launch, and the telescope is going as strong as ever. Continue reading... WRAY HERBERT Cognitive Earthquake: Who's Really in Need? As described in a forthcoming article in Psychological Science, across all scenarios volunteers felt that they should give much more generously when a disaster had a high death toll. That is, donors were highly sensitive to fatalities, and unfazed by the actual numbers of needy. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003