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A fisherman in Egypt’s southern governorate of Qena recently captured what he thought was a duck with a suspicious metallic device attached to its back. Thinking the duck might be a spy, he turned it over to the Coalition of Arab Tribes who, in turn, filed a police report, and the “duck” was put under arrest and ended up in jail as a Zionist spy. Really. It was later discovered that the duck was, in fact, a white...

The following article with the title above was released by the USGS Newsroom on September 4, 2013, and details of the report have since been widely disseminated by the media: While scientists can’t predict when a great earthquake producing a pan-Pacific tsunami will occur, thanks to new tools being developed by federal and state officials, scientists can now offer more accurate insight into the likely impacts when tsunamis...

Does science inspire moral behavior? Experiments by UCSB Social Psychology Ph. D. Christine Ma-Kellams and Professor Jim Blascovich suggest that it does. The research article was published by PLoS ONE on March 6, 2013 (Ma-Kellams C, Blascovich J (2013) Does “Science” Make You Moral? The Effects of Priming Science on Moral Judgments and Behavior. PLoS ONE 8(3): e57989. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0057989). “In a recent...