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What's Hot This Week Culture Poisons Brain With Racism, Study Finds by Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer For years, social scientists have uncovered the unsettling truth that no matter how egalitarian a person purports to be, their unconscious mind holds some racist, sexist or ageist thoughts. Earth's First Arctic Ozone Hole Recorded by Wynne Parry, Senior Writer LiveScience The high atmosphere over the Arctic lost an unprecedented amount of its protective ozone earlier this year, so much that conditions echoed the infamous ozone hole that forms annually over the opposite side of the planet, the Antarctic, scientists say. Sponsored by: Life's Extremes: Early Birds Versus Night Owls World's Earliest Christian Engraving Shows Surprising Pagan Elements 'Dumb' Neanderthals Likely Had a Smart Diet Dangerous Food: The Stats on Foodborne Illness (Infographic) The Best Science Photos of the Week - Oct. 1, 2011