Jessica Boddy
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Study Links A Happy, Peaceful Mind To Sweet Dreams
I tend to have very vivid dreams. I recently dreamed that I hit a home run at Wrigley Field as a member of my favourite baseball team, the Chicago Cubs, for example. But I also dreamed the clown from It came to haunt me at the top of every hour as I roamed a crowded…
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Blue-And-Yellow Macaws Turn Pink To Communicate, But What Are They Saying?
Do you ever get so excited about something that your whole face starts to turn red? Well, it seems that blue-and-yellow macaws do the same thing, according to new research — though the exact reason they go red in the face is still unknown.
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The Psychedelic Drug DMT Can Simulate A Near-Death Experience, Study Suggests
Not everyone who is close to death — or thinks they are, at least — has a “near-death experience”. But those who do often hallucinate that they leave their bodies, meet otherworldly beings, or see bright flashes and tunnels of light. Those who take the psychedelic drug dimethyltryptamine, or DMT — a compound found in…
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The World’s Largest King Penguin Colony Is Catastrophically Shrinking, And We Don’t Know Why
The last time scientists visited Ile aux Cochons in 1982, an island that is part of an archipelago in the southern Indian Ocean, the king penguin population was booming. Over 500,000 breeding pairs (around two million penguins total) huddled together there, making the island the largest king penguin colony in the world. But new research…