Yep, it happens. Like that time the radioactive spider bit me in the lab...
Link: http://nautil.us/blog/what-its-like-being-a-sudden-savant
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A rather poetic remembrance of what sounds to be a rather remarkable wolf: Headline: "World's Greatest Animal Criminal Dead"
Link: http://www.fws.gov/news/Historic/NewsReleases/1921/19210103.pdf
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An intriguing article at The Atlantic describes a rather new and unique video game. An artificial self-created universe, with 18,446,744,073,709,551,616 planets to explore, bigger than any one of us, any population of us - and I'm including the world here, could hope to explore in our lifetime. The chances of running into another player - in your lifetime (in the game), are less than that of winning the 6/49. A curious premise, curious, too, as to how this algorithm evolves...
Link: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/02/artificial-universe-no-mans-sky/463308/
Updated: Game Site
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A rather interesting article on how your body trains itself to respond to medicine:
http://mosaicscience.com/story/medicine-without-the-medicine-how-to-train-your-immune-system-placebo
Noteworthy in the study is how the mice died even when no poison was administered, the thought/association of dying was enough...
And there's this - the placebo effect is rising: http://www.nature.com/news/strong-placebo-response-thwarts-painkiller-trials-1.18511
Which raises some interesting questions about medicine in general. But I'll let you ask those on your own...
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