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    Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists

    The Guardian: Brain scans show social exclusion creates jihadists, say researchers "For years western policymakers have tried to establish what causes individuals to be radicalised. Now a pioneering study has used medical science to gain fresh insight into the process – in the brains of...
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    Neurology Memories could be stored in neuron's nucleus rather than in the synapses

    If this is true it is potentially a Nobel-winning discovery. BBC News: 'Memory transplant' achieved in snails "A team successfully transplanted memories by transferring a form of genetic information called RNA from one snail into another. The snails were trained to develop a defensive...
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    Neanderthal's brain matured more slowly than Homo sapiens and other primates

    For those who still thought of Neanderthals as brutish retards, think again. It was already known that they had bigger brains than us, they could talk, buried their dead long before Homo sapiens, used medicinal plants, made and used painting and jewellery, and that they may have invented...
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