SCIENCE BUZZ: Richard Dawkins (with some help from Rather Good ) wants to sing to you about how very interesting science is. Take a minute and let him do that for you.

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1. Richard Dawkins on Twitter
2. More Richard Dawkins Buzz

Christoph Niemann (yaaaay) has discovered at least 30 new types of trees for your enjoyment and edification. (The other 26 are here. )

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1. via Flavorwire

A National Geographic photographer is fed penguins by a giant leopard seal. What a great story. I wish *I* made friends with a leopard seal!

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Good morning, here's a video of a domesticated baby otter. New pet trend!!!

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1. via Arbroath

Be careful what you ask for on the Internet. Sometimes even an honest response can make you feel pretty stupid.

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1. Via Digg

This family was just minding its own business in the Johannesburg Lion Safari Park, like you do. Didn't they learn anything from Jurassic Park? Don't stop the car, duh.

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Dalmatians have different shadows from the rest of on account of their spots. Science, people. Science.

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As this video definitively proves, baby elks (just like all babies) love splashing around in mud puddles while classical music is playing.

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This guy'll never be Crasher Squirrel , he just doesn't have the gumption. Or even the will to live.

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1. Via Julia Segal

This is like a real-life vaguely racist version of National Treasure. (Which is just a crappy version of The Da Vinci Code, which is already pretty terrible.)

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SCIENCE BUZZ: So that whole “blowing up the moon” thing worked. I thought we'd already found water on the moon, but an associate tells me that was Mars and that this is a) new b) very exciting. Space Houses for everyone!

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1. NASA says it has discovered water on the moon
2. The satellite, known as Lcross (pronounced L-cross), slammed into a crater near the Moon’s south pole a month ago. The impact carved out a hole 60- to 100-feet wide and kicked up at least 24 gallons of water. “We got more than just whiff,” said Peter H. Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown University and a co-investigator of the mission. “We practically tasted it with the impact.”
3. Read all the sciency stuff here.
4. NASA Bombing The Moon
5. NASA High Five - Featured on BuzzFeed
6. Related.

Link: http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feat...

Our level of gullibility (or perhaps sheer stupidity) has reached the point where NASA has to tell us not to believe Roland Emmerich films are real life.

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A pregnant shark gave birth to 8 baby sharks after being bitten open by another shark. This may be the only shark attack with a happy ending.

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A chimp catches a frog and forces it to fellate him. BuzzFeed is quickly becoming your number one source of inter-species rape videos on the Internet.

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1. Via Reddit

According the the “experts” at Wikipedia, It would appear that of all the terrible and monstrous vampires in history, Count Chocula has the fewest weaknesses. This implies that he is the strongest vampire ever, you've been warned.

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Link: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,4...

After doing an MRI on a woman who was thought to have a possible brain tumor, doctors found “something down in her brain stem which is as deep in the brain as you can be.” They said it got there from eating under-cooked pork or not washing hands. This is so worse than eye worms , HOW DID IT GET THERE?!

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Science Fair projects should be creative, fun and informative. Here's a list (with pictures) of some of the best science fair projects ever. If anyone knows what Moon Babies are, please contact me. Kthanksbye.

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A flock of some 300,000 starlings form an ominous, shape-shifting cloud in an unspecified plot of sky above Denmark. [ via ]

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Link: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/11/...

Large Hadron Collider (LHC) may create doors to other dimensions, according to Sergio Bertolucci, who is Director for Research and Scientific Computing at CERN. That is it, man, that is IT! Unexplained breakdowns! Time traveling molecules! Birds attacking with baguettes! Dogs and cats living together!

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Remember Desiree Jennings, the girl who had vaccine-induced dystonia ? Turns out that her incurable disorder has been cured . Oh, and it probably wasn't vaccines that caused her problems, despite her story spurring on a huge anti-vaccination movement. Oh, and she probably never actually had dystonia.

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The Best Links:

1. The Original Desiree Jennings Video
2. Walk It Out (Dystonia Remix)
3. Desiree Jennings “cured” of her “vaccine-induced dystonia”?