HuffPost Science: Cannibalism; Alien Abduction; Facebook Quiz

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 WATCH: Your Brain On Cannibalism There's no doubt that cannibalism is simultaneously fascinating and repulsive. Hearing survival stories makes us question whether we could eat the flesh of our fallen companions, like the Donner party was forced to do in February of 1847. Click the link above to learn more. Scientists' Theory About 'Alien Abductions' Gets Support R U Addicted To Facebook? New Quiz Gives Answer Huge Prehistoric Beast Gobbled Humans, Fossils Suggest Ancient Beast Unearthed Was Smallest Of Its Type BLOG POSTS Richard Garriott de Cayeux: The Legacy of the Space Shuttle The Space Shuttle has been the most successful space launch system ever by far. In 30 years we launched the Space Shuttle 135 times. Today more than half of the just over 500 people who have ever orbited the earth, have done so aboard one of the five space shuttles. Madeline Schwartzman: Harness Up That Snail and Let's Make Energy: It's Time to Feed the Table James Auger and Jimmy Loizeau created five pieces of furniture, each equipped with a microbial fuel cell that converts chemical energy into electrical energy when bacteria are fed organic matter. Articles and blog posts about this project express repulsion at the idea of flesh-eating robots. Allen Frances: Newsflash from APA Meeting: DSM-5 Has Flunked Its Reliability Tests Reliability this low for so many diagnoses gravely undermines the credibility of DSM-5 as a basis for administrative coding, treatment selection, and clinical research. What can be done to salvage this deplorable mess? Rev. Michael Dowd: Big History Hits the Big Time This new, cross-disciplinary field that embraces cosmic, geological, and biological history (as well as human history) offers an inspiring way forward through the thorny and tangled bank of the science-and-religion debate. Rob Brooks: Homophobia and Suppressed Desire Pastor Sean Harris of Berean Baptist Church in Fayettesville, N.C. gives "dads" special dispensation to punch their gender-nonconforming kids and snap their limp wrists. The reason I bring this hateful bile to your attention is that it brings to mind a recent study.

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