Swans on Tea

I knew that I would.
[T]he placebo theory of suffering is one window through which to view blogging. As social creatures, humans have a range of pain-related behaviors, such as complaining, which acts as a “placebo for getting satisfied,” Flaherty says. Blogging about stressful experiences might work similarly.
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Located mainly in the midbrain, the limbic system controls [...]

but plenty of ‘bots. Crazy robots go wild in California

The song of the humpback
Only the males sing, which has led many scientists to theorize that they croon to attract females. The hole in this argument, though, is that no one has ever seen a female whale show any interest in a male’s song.
Just because women show no interest doesn’t mean a guy isn’t doing [...]

Electrons and photons in a Mach-Zehnder interferometer show differences in their behavior
The output signal hit a minimum every time the two electron waves cancelled and a maximum when the waves maximally reinforced one another. But as they increased the current, the interference pattern waxed and waned in amplitude in an unexpected way, disappearing altogether at [...]