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Science/Wildlife
January 2011
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Rare and maddeningly elusive, the "ghost cat" tries to give scientists the slip high in the mountains of Montana
Ted Wood
Featured Articles .........................................................................................................................................................
Now numbering in the millions, these shockingly destructive and invasive wild hogs wreak havoc across the southern United States
Wild hogs running
Two unsung space telescopes create eye-opening images of the universe from light we can't see
Milky Way
Animals as common as goats, deer, rabbits or mice can have a devastating effect on other wildlife
Long-tailed Macaque
Featured Comment
"These hogs feed my family all year. The taste and texture of the meat is just as it is described in the article, and, as a mom, I like the fact that I know where it's been and that it has none of the objectionable substances in it that most of our commercial meat contains."

— Posted by commenter Merritt Seely on "A Plague of Pigs in Texas"
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Surprising Science
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Smithsonian Bird Curator: Die Off Concerns Are Overblown »

Think Fast
Which region in the human brain stores memories?
  1. Hippocampus
  2. Cerebellum
  3. Medulla Oblongata
  4. Hypothalamus
*Answer at the bottom of this email
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(Think Fast Answer: Hippocampus) Memories are stored in a region of the brain called the hippocampus. Most people have "flashbulb memories" of where they were and what they were doing when something momentous happened.