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+ - Adult Brains Wired to Go Ga-Ga Over Bab(i)es ->

Submitted by Cutie
Cutie (666) writes "The urge to cuddle and coo when presented with a baby turns out to be an innate response prompted, at least in part, by the structure of an infant's face, according to new research that actually shows how this baby love process works in adult brains. The finding could explain many behaviors, including why adults connect with babies, why most parents immediately gravitate to their kids and why many men appear to be attracted to women with baby-like features. All elicit an attraction and parental brain response beginning in the medial orbitofrontal cortex, which is at the front of the brain just over our eyeballs, the new study, published in this week's PLoS ONE, determined."
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+ - Military Steps Up War on Blogs

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An anonymous reader writes "The military's war on blogs continues. Now the Air Force is tightening restrictions on which blogs its troops can read. At least one senior Air Force official calls the squeeze so "utterly stupid, it makes me want to scream.""

+ - Correcting misperceptions about evolution-> 2

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Comment: Re:Hey, first post! No, but seriously..... (Score 1) 11

by chellee (#20906941) Attached to: Slashdot Anniversary: St. Louis, MO, US
I kinda thought someone would hold a /. party here at UMR, but maybe they're just too Microsoft-y here, and I'm not hard-core enough to start one up. I probably won't make it to St. Louis either (i.e. who knows if I'll even remember that far into the future, much less being up to hanging out with, like, people), but I am still giving my attendance a non-zero probability so if that's useful in your reckoning, there you go.
