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LOTD for June 12

Study says that global warming could make the world a more violent place because higher temperatures increase human aggression and create volatile situations:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100324-global-warming-violence-aggression/


Study found that women need to exercise for an *hour* a day if they do not want to gain weight as they get older. The only women in the study that maintained a normal body weight (BMI of 25 or less) were those that exercised an average of 60 minutes per day, 7 days a week, which is 3x higher than the amount recommended to avoid heart disease and other ailments:
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/24/science/la-sci-women-weight-gain24-2010mar24


MIT scientists were able to find the moral center of the brain, and then showed that they could use magnetic fields to *change* that moral center, changing those people's moral judgments!
http://news.discovery.com/tech/magnet-brain-morality.html


Study found that high-fat, high-calorie foods affect the brain similarly to the way cocaine and heroin do! The study found that compulsive eating habits resemble drug addiction:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/03/28/fatty.foods.brain/index.html


Ohio woman had twins babies delivered a week apart! After she delivered a girl, her labor stopped and she did not deliver her boy until a week later:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/05/earlyshow/main6364800.shtml


A mayor in Jordan is considering suing a newspaper that played an April Fools Day joke by reporting that 10-foot-tall aliens had landed in the desert town of Jafr. The mayor says that parents were so frightened that they did not send their children to school that day and he almost evacuated their town's 13,000 residents!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8604122.stm


The Pennsylvania Lottery's Big 4 drawing came out 7-7-7-7, resulting in a $7.77 million payout to 3,107 winning tickets. The lottery paid out $7.2 million more than it took in since it is popular for people to pick 7-7-7-7:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/89689007.html

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