cannibalism
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Should Astronauts Be Allowed to Eat Dead Crew Members to Survive?
An expert discusses whether space cannibalism should be a potential survival solution for astronauts on deep space missions.
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This Was Not His Design: Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal Could Have Been Hugh Grant
It’s not an overstatement to say that Hannibal, Bryan Fuller’s nouveau gothic drama take on the Hannibal Lecter mythos, made Mads Mikkelsen’s career in Hollywood. But casting a nearly unknown Danish actor for a lead role in a prime-time network drama is not easy, as Fuller will tell you. And it took NBC some time…
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Scientists Are Working On A Bath Salts Vaccine To Block The Scary High
Researchers at the University of Arkansas for Medical Science are trying to create a vaccine for a class of drugs commonly known as bath salts, most infamously, if wrongly, accused of turning people into face-eating zombies. And their latest results in rats, presented this week at the annual Experimental Biology conference, suggest that they’re on…
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Virgin Velvet Spiders Allow Themselves To Be Eaten By Their Foster Kids
Spiders are typically thought of as solitary creatures that don’t partake in social pleasantries unless it has something to do with mating. But as new research shows, the African velvet spider is an exception to this rule. Mother spiders are assisted by closely-related virgin females who, in addition to engaging in child-rearing tasks, offer themselves…