Make your pets a part of your New Year's resolutions

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- When drawing up a list of New Year's resolutions, be sure to include your pets, says Lorraine Corriveau, a wellness veterinarian at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine.


Prayer on the hospital floor

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

What happens when the families of sick and dying hospitalized children ask their physicians to pray with them, or for them? How do pediatricians respond to such personal requests? While increasing numbers of physicians say ...


Text of Jewish exorcism discovered

Text of Jewish exorcism discovered

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A rare - and possibly unique - text describing a Jewish exorcism has been discovered by a scholar of medieval Jewish studies.


First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

First archaeological survey of Paphlagonia published

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created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Project Paphlagonia is the first fully published multi-period archaeological and historical survey of the little explored region of north-central Turkey. Today this region includes the provinces ...


Mid-Century Model Homes Helped Shape Domestic Ideals

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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arkansas researcher examined trends in model houses in the post-World War II era and found that they represent a transformation in cultural and domestic life that continues to influence housing ...


DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

DNA of Jesus-era shrouded man in Jerusalem reveals earliest case of leprosy

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The DNA of a 1st century shrouded man found in a tomb on the edge of the Old City of Jerusalem has revealed the earliest proven case of leprosy. Details of the research will be published December 16 in the ...


Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

Researchers reveal ancient origins of modern opossum

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A University of Florida researcher has co-authored a study tracing the evolution of the modern opossum back to the extinction of the dinosaurs and finding evidence to support North America as the center of ...


Bronze Age People Left Flowers at Grave

Bronze Age People Left Flowers at Grave

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (8) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Archaeologists from the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen have found proof that pre-historic people laid flowers at the graves of their dead.


Pension fund switch to decentralized management right way to go, landmark study finds

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As pension funds have grown and become increasingly complex many have turned to using multiple, often pricier specialist managers to steer their investment decisions.


Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

Soup can reopens mystery of doomed Franklin Expedition

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lead levels that are "off the scale" have been confirmed after tests were done this morning on the lid of a soup can dating back more than 150 years. The findings reopen the mystery surrounding ...


'Happy housewife' myth debunked by new book

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Many believe that 1950s cinema portrayed women as complacent, conservative housewives who liked nothing better than to rustle up a three-course meal for their hardworking husbands, but a new book has shown ...


A view of the mountains in the Herault Valley

French find puts humans in Europe 200,000 years earlier

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Experts on prehistoric man are rethinking their dates after a find in a southern French valley suggested our ancestors may have reached Europe 1.57 million years ago: 200,000 years earlier than we thought.


World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

World's first skeletal mount of Paluxysaurus jonesi reveals new biology

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(PhysOrg.com) -- The Early Cretaceous sauropod Paluxysaurus jonesi weighed 20 tons, was 60 feet long and had a neck 26 feet long, according to scientists who prepared the world's first full skeletal mount ...


Jules Verne, desperado?

Jules Verne, desperado?

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created Dec 15, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Jules Verne (1828-1905) is often remembered as a 19th-century founder of science fiction, whose enthusiasm for invention fills his books — from the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon ...


Experiential learning teaches change and adaptation

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Economics, environmental impacts, social dynamics, and production levels are all major factors that influence the overall success of an agroecosystem. Positive or negative, these factors enact change on the system, forcing ...