The fishing industry seems determined to catch every last fish in the North Sea. The governments of the region and the EU have done little to stop them, but they may soon hit a few snags: a team from Greenpeace Germany and Greenpeace Netherlands has sailed into the German North Sea and begun placing 150 […]

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The US Congress has sent President Bush legislation that will make toys safer for little tots and infants. The bill bans the use of six toxic chemicals, called phthalates, that are added to vinyl plastic to make it flexible.     Full Story…

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Almond BR. Monstrous infants and vampyric mothers in Bram Stoker’s “Dracula”. Int J Psychoanal. 2007 Feb;88(Pt 1):219-35.
“Vampires and the state of being “undead” are representations of intense oral needs, experienced in a context of passivity and helplessness.”
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Stiles A. Cerebral automatism, the brain, and the soul in Bram Stoker’s Dracula. J Hist Neurosci. […]

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Ancestry tests aren’t just for humans anymore. We went to Petco this weekend to buy dog food and found brochures for doggy DNA testing. Now, those of you with dogs of uncertain parentage need puzzle no longer. According to Petco, their SNP test (what is a SNP?) can identify over 100 different breeds and they’ll […]

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