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First-Time Cocaine Use in Rats Highlights Individual Susceptibility to Addiction

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Researchers at the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP) explored how rats react to cocaine paired with an unpleasant stimulus, uncovering new insights into addiction vulnerability. In the experiment, nearly 30 rats self-administered intravenous doses of cocaine hydrochloride combined with quinine—a bitter but safe compound—via a nose-poke mechanism. The quinine hit preceded the cocaine […]

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Drinking Cocoa May Help Shield Your Body From Fatty Foods and Stress

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Stress often drives us to indulge in foods that aren’t healthy, but scientists have found a surprising way to counteract the negative effects: pairing high-fat meals with antioxidant-rich cocoa. Stress, even in short bursts, can temporarily harm arterial function. Eating fatty foods may feel comforting but can worsen cardiovascular stress, delaying recovery. However, there’s good

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Partial Basic Income in France Could Empower Young People

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The introduction of a partial fundamental revenue targeted at young people living in France would give a crucial ‘leg up’ to the nation’s powerless young people, state the new report’s authors. The analysis from the University of Bath’s Institute for Policy Study (IPR) and Centre for Microsimulation and Policy Analysis (CeMPA) at the University of

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Satisfied Twosday! Why Numbers Like 2/22/22 Have Been Too Interesting For Over 2,000 Years

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This Feb. 22, the globe strikes an extraordinary landmark. It’s the day itself: 2/22/22. And this supposed “Twosday” falls on a Tuesday, no much less. It holds true; the number pattern stands apart, difficult to miss out on. However, does it suggest anything? Judging by the thousands of celebratory items available for purchase online, it

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A Fringe Conspiracy Theory, Fostered Online, Is Refashioned by the G.O.P.

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Some right-wing politicians and commentators have embraced the replacement theory espoused by the suspect in the Buffalo massacre. Mass shootings and replacement theory Inside a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018, a white man with a background of antisemitic internet posts shot 11 worshipers, criticizing Jewish people for allowing immigrant “intruders” into the United States. The following

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The Philosophy: Exactly How it Aided Throughout the Pandemic

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What are we when we are no more ourselves? Just how philosophy has helped Kiran throughout the pandemic: In what looks like an exclusive act in witch hour, I light candlelight and sign up with a Zoom: Ideological background seminar at midnight. I belong to a team of individuals who fulfill fortnightly to brood over

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Harvard Scientist Suggests That Our Universe Was Developed in a Laboratory

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It’s a compelling (and scary) theory Advanced Civilizations A Harvard researcher has a fascinating theory concerning just how our universe was formed: in a research laboratory by a superior “class” of lifeform. Avi Loeb, the bestselling author also the former chair of Harvard’s astronomy department, wrote an op-ed in Scientific American recently positing that the

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Pythagoras’ Revenge: Humans Didn’t Invent Mathematics

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Many individuals believe that mathematics is a human invention. In this way of thinking, mathematics is like a language: it may define actual things on the planet. However, it does not “exist” outside the minds of the people who utilize it. However, the Pythagorean school of thought in ancient Greece held a different sight. Its

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Australian Politicians Need to Stop Meddling with Basic Research

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In nations like Denmark and Germany, gifts are given on Christmas Eve rather than Christmas morning. Furthermore, on Christmas Eve 2021, 587 groups of researchers at universities around Australia got a festive present from the Australian Research Council (ARC), in the form of information that their 2022 Discovery Projects were to be financed. More brutally,

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