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Science News: One Bowie Song to Rule Them All

dogpulsar1 Science News: One Bowie Song to Rule Them AllSpace shuttle launch delayed until late Friday. A new study finds that marijuana may slow brain damage from binge drinking. Mapping the range of sexual desire in necrophiliacs. District 9 is made up of far more fiction than science. From Nature, nitrous oxide in the atmosphere is proving a threat to the ozone layer. For you trig nerds out there, a brief history of the sine function. A review of The Perfect Fruit, a journey through modern fruit breeding. Yesterday was the 150th anniversary of the world’s first oil well, tapped in 1859 in western Pennsylvania. A professor at the University of Hertfordshire ran David Bowie’s songs through linguistic analysis program and generated an ideal Bowie song based on their patterns called “Team, Meet Girls; Girls, Meet Team” (he starts to rock out at 4:25).

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Michelle studied art history and creative writing at Columbia University. She is an adjunct scholar at Lapham’s Quarterly and has worked at Cabinet, Open City, and New York Public Radio. ...

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