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...Prozac gives you an up even when you're not down, why wouldn't you want to take it? Dr. Peter Kramer of Brown University asked that question in his best-selling 1993 book, Listening to Prozac. A drug that makes patients feel "better than well," he suggested, might give rise to a new era of "cosmetic psychopharmacology," in which reshaping your personality would be as easy as highlighting your hair...
...animals or even nonliving things. But it's hard to resist the charm of Labroides dimidiatus, a species of fish otherwise known as the bluestreak cleaner wrasse. These colorful little critters make their living in coral reefs by setting up cleaning stations where larger fish - often predators that might otherwise gobble them up - can stop by to have their skin cleaned. The wrasses busy themselves like car-wash attendants fussing around a sports car, nibbling off parasites, dead tissue and other blemishes and nourishing themselves in the process. (See the top 10 animal stories...
...cleaner fish may have another rationale - one that they also might share with us. The male cleaners probably punish females for biting the client because the male is a secondary victim - the client fish often swims away after being nibbled by the female, and the male wrasse loses his chance for lunch. This rationale, over the course of evolutionary eras, could have led to human society's more diffuse arrangements for punishment. "What we might be seeing is the origin of third-party punishment in human evolutionary history," Bshary says. The line connecting the male wrasse to our criminal courts...
...sure to watch your step—if you’re not careful you might accidentally stumble into enemy territory, because we hear that the Yale Spizzwinks(?) (yes, the question mark is part of their name) and presumably some other Yale a capella groups are lurking around Los Angeles and other cities dangerously near...
...partisanship hasn't stopped with the issue of security. The decision on Wednesday by a federal grand jury in Michigan to return a six-count indictment against Abdulmutallab might ordinarily have been a routine step in a criminal prosecution. But it has only stoked the debate over whether Abdulmutallab should have instead been handed over to the military. (See pictures of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab...