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May 22, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Are Humans Getting Dumber? Our technology may be getting smarter, but a provocative new study suggests human intelligence is on the decline. In fact, it indicates that Westerners have lost 14 I.Q. points on average since the Victorian Era. Continue reading... 'Re-Fleshed' Dinosaur Reveals Peculiar Way Creature Ate REVEALED: Why Penguins Stopped Flying BUSTED: 7 Dangerous Myths About Tornado Safety LOOK: Oklahoma Tornado Seen From Space WATCH: A Chemistry Lab Fireball Makes It 'Rain' REVEALED: Secret Of Salamander's Amazing Limb Regrowth REVEALED: Disturbing Trend In Human Intelligence Drones May Revolutionize Farming, Experts Say REVEALED: Disturbing Trend In Human Intelligence LOOK: Oklahoma Tornado Seen From Space WATCH: 5 Big Myths About Gluten-Free Eating...Busted! TROY CAMPBELL Can People Choose Their Emotions Like Spock? In Star Trek Into Darkness, Spock claims he can choose whether or not to feel an emotion. Can humans chose how to feel or is this simply a Vulcan thing? The answer is that people can often act in a Vulcan manner and choose their feelings. Continue reading... STANTON PEELE The Search for Mental Illness and Addiction in the Brain, Part II: Why Are the Human Psyche and Behavior So Complicated? The very inconclusiveness of the Human Genome Project as detailed in part one is pushing us to conclude that we were only looking in the wrong place when we put a microscope to our DNA. Instead, we have determined to look to the brain directly. Continue reading... ROB BROOKS Explaining Schwarzenegger -- Men, Biceps and the Politics of Getting What You Want Entitled "The Ancestral Logic of Politics," a paper published last week in Psychological Science explored the link between male upper-body strength and assertion of economic self-interest. The link between what and what? Exactly. Continue reading... TONY GRAY What's All the Buzz About? Bee numbers have been on the decline since the Sixties, so it is crucial to raise as much awareness as possible around their economical and environmental importance to encourage people to show their support for the British bee. Continue reading... MELISSA MORITZ Exceptional Women in STEM Should Be the Rule I can honestly -- and naively -- say that it never once occurred to me that I couldn't grow up to be anything I wanted. It wasn't until I started my current role that I realized that a woman who was encouraged to pursue STEM as a child can be a rare thing indeed. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003