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In December Rory Thompson, 57, was granted a patent for a device that allows people to see an ordinary color TV or computer screen in three dimensions. Thompson developed the device while in Risdon Prison Hospital in Hobart, Australia, where he’s been since he was declared insane following a 1984 conviction for killing his wife and flushing parts of her body down a toilet.
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In December the Associated Press reported on research conducted by Dr. James M. Dabbs, a psychology professor at Georgia State University, on determining personality by examining hormones. Dabbs prefers using hormones found in saliva to those found in blood because it’s easier to get subjects to spit. “Dr. Spit,” as Dabbs is known, said he’s a pioneer in the field because other researchers might view working with spit as “unseemly.”
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