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Dartmouth issues warning about catalytic converter thefts
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NORWICH Two catalytic converters were stolen from vehicles parked in the Lewiston lot in Norwich last weekend, prompting Dartmouth College Department of Safety and Security to issue a warning to community members.
According to the announcement, there has been a surge in catalytic converter thefts in the region, including Hartford, Piermont and Lebanon, as well as other towns throughout the Twin States.
In response, the Department of Safety and Security has upped its patrols of campus lots.
Those with information about the thefts are asked to call the Norwich Police Department at 802-649-1460, Hanover Police Department at 603-643-2222 and the Lebanon Police Department at 603-448-1212.
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DURHAM, N.C. - For decades, psychologists study of emotional health and well-being has involved contrived laboratory experiments and self-report questionnaires to understand the emotional experiences and strategies study participants use to manage stress.
But those hundreds of studies may have taken for granted a pretty big complicating factor, argues a new study from Duke University and Dartmouth College.
The study, which appears March 12 in
PLOS One, says the background level of anxiety a person normally experiences may interfere with how they behave in the lab setting. The paper is not saying all of this work is wrong, emphasized first author Daisy Burr, a graduate student in psychology and neuroscience at Duke. It s just saying, Hey, there s this really interesting unknown here that we should all be examining.
Woolly mammoths and people might have crossed paths in New England
This portion of a woolly mammoth rib, part of the Hood Art Museum collection, contained enough organic material to be radiocarbon dated – about 12,700 years ago. Image by Nathaniel Kitchel and Jeremy DeSilva
An illustration of a wooly mammoth. Wikipedia
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In fossil-deprived Northern New England, where geology melted dinosaur remains and glaciers ground up everything else, woolly mammoths are special.
Mammoths and their mastodon cousins are the only extinct megafauna that were definitely here at some point. Solid evidence exists in the form of teeth from a couple of places in New Hampshire and teeth or bones in a few other New England spots.