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    For 15 years, a neuroscientist has studied raccoon intelligence in Central Virginia. Then a drunk one passed out in a nearby liquor store

    Scaled up to size, a raccoon brain would contain roughly the same number of neurons as a human brain.

    By Kelly Lambert and The Conversation
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    By Glenn Gamboa and The Associated Press
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    After fighting for legalization, weed smokers face a harsh reality: Symptoms earlier generations didn’t experience make wake-and-bake a new kind of addiction

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    Billionaire Richard Branson mourns his wife and partner of 50 years, Joan: ‘She was my best friend, my rock, my guiding light, my world’

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    Trump circulates plan to rescue Obamacare for 2 more years as millions face spike in health care costs in January

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    ‘Not the MAHA that we signed up for’: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. learns the perils of power and keeping his grassroots movement together

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    Transportation chief offers advice to increasingly angry Americans: ‘Let’s maybe go back to an era where we didn’t wear our pajamas to the airport?’

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    ‘Is this kind of the first domino to fall?’ Trump’s Medicaid cuts shut down the only hospital for miles around in an elderly New England mountain town

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