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\"sea-salt-340x227\"Is the Ocean Getting Saltier?<\/a>
\nMost sea salts come from water-caused erosion, whereby rivers ultimately carry the dissolved salts to the oceans. Absent a few key processes, the ocean\u2019s salinity would continuously increase; however, there are several mechanisms, called \u201csalt sinks,\u201d that help remove salts from the oceans at pretty much exactly the same rate as they are added. One major sink is thanks to the evaporation of water. Once the seawater evaporates, the salt concentration increases. How does that remove salt from the water? Ultimately the water will become supersaturated in certain places and no longer capable of keeping all the salts dissolved, resulting in the formation of evaporite deposits in the sediment that eventually cement into sedimentary rocks…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"alien-hand-340x342\"The Curious Case of Alien Hand Syndrome<\/a>
\nAlthough modern medicine has made tremendous advances in many areas, even mapping the human genome, there remain aspects of human health that continue to elude our full understanding. Alien hand syndrome is one of these puzzles- with its sufferers having one of their hands, usually the non-dominant one, acting as if it has a mind of its own.\u00a0Many of us have seen people with this condition, albeit on the big screen. In the campy 1935 horror film, Mad Love, deranged surgeon Peter Lorre replaces a pianist\u2019s hands with those of a knife-throwing murderer, and the hands take over. More recently and more well known, in Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964), Peter Sellers in the eponymous role repeatedly and compulsively fights to keep his right arm from striking a Nazi salute…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

\"dick\"The Truth About Dick Turpin<\/a><\/p>\n

Richard Turpin, better known by his nickname, Dick, was a legendary highwayman who stalked the English countryside. A century or so after his death by hanging in 1739, Turpin was idealized as a dashing rogue or gentleman thief type in a multitude of supposedly factual stories purportedly based on his life.\u00a0In reality, he was not exactly dashing, with a face covered in pox scars. More importantly, far from being a lovable rogue, Dick Turpin was kind of, well, a dick (see: Why Dick is Short for Richard). Further, many of his supposed \u201cfeats\u201d were actually gleaned from the lives of less well-known highwaymen, most notable, Swift Nick Nevison. Compared to the ruthless Turpin, Nevison was practically a gentlemen who, while still very much a scoundrel compared…(more<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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