Throughout our lives we have multitudes of experiences that shape how we then behave in the world. Some of these lessons are learnt rapidly, such as why we shouldn’t put our hand on a hot pan on the stove. Other, more autobiographical experiences can be stored and recalled explicitly as our memories. These memories can be recalled and described, such as what we did for certain birthdays, or experiences from our holidays. We can also learn to perform certain actions and behaviours that...

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For the past 30 years, Jimmy Carter has waged war on the Guinea worm, a parasite that infects people who drink water contaminated with its larvae. Carter’s first encounter with the worm was in the late 1980s during a trip to a small village in Ghana, where more than two-thirds of inhabitants were infected. “I saw a young woman holding a baby in her arms … But it was not a baby—It was her right breast,” he said to a group of reporters. “It was [swollen to] about a foot long.

We like to feel superior to the people who lived centuries ago, what with their shitty mud huts and curing colds by drilling a hole in their skulls. But we have to give them credit: They left behind some artifacts that have left the smartest of modern scientists scratching their heads.

The La Brea asphalt seeps are famous for the predators found entombed there. Dire wolves and the sabercat Smilodon – the site’s mascot – are the exotic Ice Age stars that everyone comes to see. The third most-numerous carnivore found there doesn’t enjoy such celebrity. If you follow the path of the Page Museum around its circular path, there’s a little alcove near the end that presents some modern animals that lived in Ice Age times. And there, howling before an artistic depiction of itself...

Cancer will kill almost no one under the age of 80 by 2050 due to continued advances preventing and treating the disease, a major study suggests. The research by University College London was published as experts said that a daily low-dose aspirin is the single most effective action to protect against cancer. Prof Jack Cuzick, who leads research into disease prevention, urged GPs to do more to ensure patients were given advice to take “baby aspirin”...

I don't normally do this, but this recipe is too good to not share. I'm not getting any compensation or anything like that. I've tried several "baked french fries" recipes but this one I tried tonight is easily the absolute best. Bookmark it. Save it. Use it and you will not be sorry. And if you like dipping your fries in something other than ketchup, use the vegan mayo in the link below too. You're welcome.

You can't get a camera any closer to the lava than this, unless you stick your camera into the Lava .

Right now I'm taking you to a 570 sq. ft. tiny cottage. It's located in the forest of rural Sweden. This little house was originally built in 1970 and later renovated in 2012. Inside you’ll find hardwood floors, partial concrete floors, tiles, bricks, and plenty of windows throughout.

Amazon announced today that Woody Allen will write and direct a series for the company. Two months ago, Netflix announced it would no longer air Bill Cosby’s comedy special; he also saw NBC scuttle discussions for a new sitcom. So: We have two septuagenarian comedy icons, one white and one black, both recently mired in accusations about long-ago sex crimes... but one is rewarded with an exciting new gig, while the other is having his career annihilated.

Three years ago, archivists at A.T. & T. stumbled upon a rare fragment of computer history: a short film that Jim Henson produced for Ma Bell, in 1963. Henson had been hired to make the film for a conference that the company was convening to showcase its strengths in machine-to-machine communication. Told to devise a faux robot that believed it functioned better than a person, he came up with a cocky, boxy, jittery, bleeping Muppet on wheels.

Public transit in Seattle has gone to the dogs. Commuters in Belltown report seeing a Black Labrador riding the bus alone in recent weeks. The 2-year old has been spotted roaming the aisles, hopping onto seats next to strangers, and even doing her part to clean the bus -- by licking her surroundings. "All the bus drivers know her. She sits here just like a person does," said commuter Tiona Rainwater, as she rode the bus through downtown Monday.

2014 will be the year flooded with the tears of speculators. Falling prices this past year have lead to many theories regarding price. One of the most recent is a rehash of the very old – Any service like BitPay crashes the bitcoin price. Founded in 2011, BitPay is the leading payment service provider (PSP) specializing in the peer-to-peer virtual currency Bitcoin. Over the past four years, they have provided merchants the means of accepting bitcoins without the risk of price volatility.

How to make a simple backyard foundry for less than $20, for melting pop cans, and casting aluminum.

It should come as no surprise that the Apollo astronauts left a few things behind after landing on the moon. Since the lunar module could only lift so much weight off the surface, they swapped out unwanted goods and gear for moon rocks. Among those unwanted goods were all kinds of weird things. What kinds of weird things? There were 96 bags of poop, pee, and puke.

Scotland now has its very own prehistoric marine reptile — and, no, we're not talking about Nessie, the mythic Loch Ness monster.

Thousands of companies unveiled new stuff at CES 2015 in Las Vegas last week, and some of the most interesting bits involved smart televisions.

Across time and culture, stories have been agents of personal transformation – in part because they change our brains.

THE official Xbox One and PS4 release dates for the Elder Scrolls Online have been leaked.

Using modern forensic techniques, a team of archaeologists have conducted an autopsy on the naturally preserved mummy of Cangrande della Scala. As suspected, the researchers have confirmed that the medieval Italian warlord was in fact assassinated.

Many folks question the long-term viability of tiny houses—especially for families. Can a family of four really sustain happiness in 168 sq. ft.?

For Weird Animal Question of the Week, we tackle the question of how man's best friend recognizes animals on the tube, and why our pets often have strong reactions.

Doctors at a Florida hospital get up close to bones, organs and veins, without making a single cut. General Electric released images on Wednesday from its first clinical trial of a next generation body scanner that captures bones, blood vessels and organs in high-definition. The patients ride into the chamber of the scanner, dubbed “Revolution CT,” where a fan-shaped beam of x rays passes down their bodies and a computer reconstructs a digital model of the body, slice-by-slice.

When President Obama first proposed visiting an asteroid in his now infamous 2010 speech at the Kennedy Space Center, many assumed that the mission would be a deep space venture to an Earth-approaching asteroid in its “native orbit” in a voyage taking weeks. Then, NASA dropped the idea in 2013 favor of the Asteroid Redirect Mission in which a tiny asteroid would be diverted to lunar orbit to be visited by astronauts. Now, according to a Thursday story in Space News, the ARM might take place...

Every year, in northeast China's Heilongjiang province, the city of Harbin hosts the Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival, featuring massive ice and snow sculptures. At night, the sculptures are colorfully illuminated and visitors can climb and play on some of them.

Seven thousand miniature wooden houses are set to pop up across Melbourne throughout January this year celebrating the meaning of "home". Devised by Melbourne artist David Cordell in partnership with Arts Centre Melbourne, the program officially kicks off with "The Big Housewarming" on Saturday. In an emotional pre-opening celebration, artist David Cordell shared his inspiration behind the project.

This breathtaking photo was taken by Jackson Carvalho. More of his photographs can be found in the sources.

The valley Innerdalen lies north of and runs parallel to Sunndalen. Go to Alvundeid (southeast of Kristiansund) and then the local road up Virumdalen to Nerdal (free parking). From there on you walk on a “tractor road”, four kilometers to Innerdalshytta, a little shorter to Renndølsetra. The road is rough and narrow and the first part is very steep. This road is closed for all but the residents’ motor vehicles and four-wheel-drive is indispensable.

European bitcoin exchange Bitstamp suspended trading Monday after one of its active, operational bitcoin storage wallets was "compromised" over the weekend. In a statement on its site, Bitstamp warned users not to deposit any Bitcoin to previously issued addresses. The popular bitcoin trading site, said to be the world's third busiest bitcoin exchange amounting for 6 percent of all bitcoin transactions, said that a "small fraction" of customer bitcoins...

In the next 40 years, humans will need to produce more food than they did in the previous 10,000 put together. But with sprawling cities gobbling up arable land, agricultural productivity gains decreasing, and demand for biofuels increasing, supply is not keeping up with demand. Clever farmers, scientists and entrepreneurs are bursting with ideas. But they need money to make this jump.