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https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/20/mdma-makes-octopuses-more-sociable Hannah Devlin Science correspondent   @hannahdev Thu 20 Sep 2018  16.56 BST The undersea and the ecstasy: MDMA leaves octopuses loved up Normally antisocial sea creature becomes friendly and tactile after being given the drug, scientists say What happens when you give an octopus MDMA? It sounds like a question that might flit through the meandering mind of someone who had been dabbling in psychedelics. But now the matter has become the focus of an unlikely-sounding scientific experiment to uncover the ancient origins of social behaviour. By showing that the normally antisocial sea creature became friendly and tactile after being given MDMA, also known as ecstasy, scientists believe they have made a link between the social behaviours of humans and a species from which we are separated by more than 500m years of evolution. Gül Dölen, a neuroscientist at the Johns...

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i've copied and pasted this from the bbc website so it won't get lost ... Inside Siberia’s isolated community of forgotten women 3 hours ago Share this with Facebook   Share this with Messenger   Share this with Twitter   Share this with Email   Share Image copyright ODED WAGENSTEIN In the remote village of Yar-Sale, in Northern Siberia, lives a group of elderly women. Once part of a nomadic community of reindeer herders, in their old age they spend most of their days in seclusion, isolated from the world they loved. While the men are encouraged to remain within the migrating community and maintain their social roles, the women are often ostracised and left to face the struggles of old age alone. Photographer Oded Wagenstein took the long journey to meet these 'forgotten' women. Image copyright ODED WAGENSTEIN "It took a flight, a sixty-hour train ride from Moscow, and a seven-hour bone-breaking drive across a ...

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