Scientists to the rescue. According to writer Richard Gray, scientists have found a way to dislodge those annoying tunes that play on an endless loop inside our heads.
"The solution can be to solve some tricky anagrams to force the intrusive music out of your working memory allowing the music to be replaced with other more amenable thoughts. 'The key is to find something that will give the right level of challenge,' says Dr Ira Hyman, a music psychologist at Western Washington…
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It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans' everyday lives, performing countless useful functions.
By JOAN LOWY Associated Press
WASHINGTON —It's a good bet that in the not-so-distant future aerial drones will be part of Americans' everyday lives, performing countless useful functions.
A far cry from the killing machines whose missiles incinerate terrorists,…
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By REX W. HUPPKE — Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO — At about age 6, there was dissonance in Jae's life.
"I started to play with dolls and to do all these things that girls would do," Jae said. "But people would say, 'Why are you doing that? You're not supposed to do that.' And I thought, 'I'm just doing what I want to do.'"
Jae is anatomically a boy. But at the age when most children begin to differentiate between the sexes, the trappings of boyhood seemed undesirable.…
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BY NICOLE WINFIELD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MARCH 28, 2013 5:51 PM
ROME - In his most significant break with tradition yet, Pope Francis washed and kissed the feet of two young women at a juvenile detention centre — a surprising departure from church rules that restrict the Holy Thursday ritual to men.
No pope has ever washed the feet of a woman before, and Francis' gesture sparked a debate among some conservatives and liturgical purists, who lamented he had set a "questionable…
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Rick Ross might be liberal with his raps about "yayo," guns and Jesus pieces, but recent lyrics about date rape stand out from the rest.
Ross collaborated with Atlanta rapper Rocko for the single, titled "U.O.E.N.O.," off Rocko's mixtape "Gift of Gab 2." Although the mix dropped in February, the track featuring…
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The Huffington Post | By Ryan Grenoble
A $585,000.50 bill for one night at a hotel is either the result of an unimaginable amount of room service, or, if you're a member of Vice President Joe Biden's posse, it's just another night in Paris.
That's per…
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Order out of chaos, Masons helping Masons, Satan's house being divided against itself....
Received this email on the 24th of June as the g8 and G20 were starting.....
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OBAMA LIES AND DOUBLE-CROSSES THE G-8 AND G-20
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TORONTO ATTENDEES FALSELY TOLD THAT PAYMENTS WERE MADE ON THURSDAY 24TH JUNE. CIA'S BANK OF AMERICA LIES THAT PAYOUTS TO BONNEY OCCURRED.
Sunday 27 June 2010…
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The FBI’s "top priority" in 2013 is to modernize surveillance law so authorities can monitor in real time the Web activities of Americans suspected of committing crimes, the FBI’s general counsel said.
At a luncheon for the American Bar Association in Washington last week, Andrew Weissman said that a 1994 federal law designed to help law enforcement conduct lawful surveillance was not keeping up with modern…
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By JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN — Associated Press
NEW HAVEN, CONN. — An arsenal of weapons including guns, a gun safe with shotgun shells, a bayonet and several swords were found in the home and car of the gunman who carried out the Newtown school shooting, according to search warrants released Thursday.
Adam Lanza killed 26 people inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and took his own life within five minutes of shooting his way into the building, State's Attorney Stephen J.…
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Posted by Nick Provenza
Update at 6:50 a.m.:
HOQUIAM (AP) — Fire has engulfed a house in Hoquiam where a standoff has been under way since Wednesday with a man suspected of shooting a police officer.
Video from KOMO and KIRO TV shows this house fully involved in flames before dawn Thursday as firefighters arrived.
Video also showed police withdrawing a robot that had been used in the standoff.
There’s no immediate word on the man who was…
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The Seattle City Council wants to limit pot stores and grow operations in residential and historic areas.
By Bob Young Seattle Times staff reporter
The Seattle City Council is proposing new rules for marijuana that would restrict dispensary and retail locations, as well as the size of grow operations, in an attempt to limit impacts on neighbors, particularly in residential and historic areas.
City officials started drafting the rules last year after…
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A former mayoral candidate in Tucson, Ariz., is launching a privately funded program to provide residents of a crime-prone area with free shotguns so they can defend themselves against criminals.
The Associated Press
TUCSON, Ariz. —A former mayoral candidate in Tucson, Ariz., is launching a privately funded program to provide residents of a crime-prone area with free shotguns so they can defend themselves against criminals.
Shaun McClusky says the program…
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By Paul McGuire
March 25, 2013
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One day soon after some global crisis on the level of an Armageddon-like and all-out…
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By Prof Michel Chossudovsky
For more than a decade, Iran has been doggedly accused without evidence of developing nuclear weapons. The Islamic Republic is relentlessly portrayed by the Western media as a threat to the security of Israel and of the Western…
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With 2,100 people dead from cholera since the devastating January 2010 Haitian earthquake and another 650,000 expected to contract the disease within the next six months, the last thing Haiti needed was another rigged election. But the nation’s role as wage floor for…
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Karl Rove Dismisses Tea Party Backlash: We Need ‘Fewer Christine O’Donnells And More Rand Pauls’
Long live the Revolution..…
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