Tuesday, October 04, 2011

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Culture Poisons Brain With Racism, Study Finds

by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer

For years, social scientists have uncovered the unsettling truth that no matter how egalitarian a person purports to be, their unconscious mind holds some racist, sexist or ageist thoughts.

Earth's First Arctic Ozone Hole Recorded

by Wynne Parry, Senior Writer LiveScience

The high atmosphere over the Arctic lost an unprecedented amount of its protective ozone earlier this year, so much that conditions echoed the infamous ozone hole that forms annually over the opposite side of the planet, the Antarctic, scientists say.

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