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Til that in 1989 the U.S.A was going to build a 50 mile long particle accelerator in texas that would have discovered the higgs-boson 10 years before CERN.

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b6JKN TIL a "misconception in much of psychology is that [...] 'newer' brain structures were added over existing 'older' brain structures [e.g. reptilian]"; rather, "all vertebrate behavior" is based on "decision-making circuits", and "the prefrontal cortex [...] is not a uniquely human structure"
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