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The Stew - With Jeff Houck

November 2007


We understand if you were too busy to Hoover up every news tidbit in November. You were probably too busy submitting video questions to candidates on YouTube. Or infiltrating the audience. Or, you know, having a real life.

Here are the highlights of what you may have missed:

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Cells sometimes crawl inside other cells to die. The process, dubbed entosis, may be a method of suppressing tumors.

In Case You Missed It: Cell, no, we won’t go.

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Bedwetting


Children that suffer from bedwetting, also known as Primary Nocturnal Enuresis, suffer from impaired brain function, sleep arousal disturbance and bladder dysfunction.

In Case You Missed It: Can I get a glass of water?

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About two-thirds of students play video and computer games - 82 percent of male students and 59 percent of female students, but only about one quarter of them said they play games often with someone of the opposite sex.

In Case You Missed It: Sex? What’s that?

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Sea Scorpion


A giant fossilized claw found from an ancient sea scorpion indicates that when alive it would have been much taller than the average man. This find, from rocks 390 million years old, suggests that spiders, insects, crabs and similar creatures were much larger in the past than previously thought.

In Case You Missed It: Thanks, but I won’t be sleeping after reading this.

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left side of the body


Skin cancer is 20 percent more common on the left side of the body,

In Case You Missed It: That does it. No more laying on my right side at the beach.

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Migraine


Migraine sufferers have a thicker brain’s cortex compared to those who live pain-free.

In Case You Missed It: Thick brain, thick brain.

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Rat Gummi Candy


Rats overwhelmingly prefer water sweetened with saccharin to cocaine, a finding that demonstrates the addictive potential of sweets. Offering larger doses of cocaine did not alter the rats’ preference for saccharin.

In Case You Missed It: This explains why rats love Skittles.

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Vaccum Dinosaur


A 110-million-year-old, plant-eating dinosaur found in the Sahara desert called Nigersaurus taqueti had mouth parts designed to vacuum up food.

In Case You Missed It: At last, the very first dirt devil!

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It takes business people twice as long to enter text messages on an iPhone than on conventional cellphones. on their than on their own phone, despite the keyboard similarities.

In Case You Missed It: iPhone? iAllThumbs.

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Rolling Stones Tongue


Giant “tongues” of ozone routinely swoop down from the upper atmosphere over Eastern Canada and can exacerbate smog problems on the ground. In one remarkable instance, ozone levels in a 1,000-kilometre swath from Montreal west across the Great Lakes almost doubled after an “ozone intrusion” dropped out of the stratosphere, the team reports in the journal Nature today.

In Case You Missed It: You had me at “tongue.”

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