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How I Stole Someone’s Identity
The author asked some of his acquaintances for permission to break into their online banking accounts. The goal was simple: get into their online accounts using the information about them, their families and acquaintances that is freely available online
> Related In-Depth Report: Technology’s Toll on Privacy and Security

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What Makes Michael Phelps So Good?
Do his body shape and flexibility give eight-gold-medal winner Phelps a competitive advantage?

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Bigfoot Press Conference Yields Little Evidence, Lots of Scorn
Enthusiast says he wants to make as much money as possible from alleged Sasquatch find, skeptics are hardly convinced
> Related Blog: Bigfoot expert weighs in: “I’m extremely skeptical”

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Oceanic Dead Zones Continue to Spread
Fertilizer runoff and fossil-fuel use lead to massive areas in the ocean with scant or no oxygen, killing large swaths of sea life and causing hundreds of millions of dollars in damage

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Minding Mistakes: How the Brain Monitors Errors and Learns from Goofs
Brain scientists have identified nerve cells that monitor performance, detect errors and govern the ability to learn from misfortunes

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Making a Solar Cell Component without Using Fossil Fuels
Cleaner than clean energy: BioSolar creates new plastic backing for photovoltaic cells out of cotton and castor beans rather than petroleum products

MIND MATTERS
The Danger of Stress
Getting stressed isn’t just a state of mind. It can also seriously harm the body.

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Why would an Olympics shooter take propranolol?
North Korean shooter Kim Jong Su is disqualified for taking drug that slows the heart rate and lowers blood pressure

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Superdove!: The Straight Poop on Pigeons
Courtney Humphries talks about her new book, Superdove: How the Pigeon Took Manhattan…And the World

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Terence Sanger: A childhood love, a love of kids
A 1981 Westinghouse finalist takes his interests in computer science to the treatment of children with movement disorders

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Air Fresheners’ Unlisted Ingredients
Products for making indoor air smell fresh or laundry smell clean may include volatile chemical compounds technically considered to be pollutants. Adam Hinterthuer reports