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This Week in Science: Hearing 'Voices', Poop Coffee, Butt Breathing, And More!


This week in science: The eerie origin of why people with schizophrenia hear 'voices in their head'; the chemistry that makes 'poop coffee' such a delicacy; how humans could learn to breathe through our butts; and much more! 50-Year-Old Theory on Schizophrenia's 'Voices' Confirmed by Recent Study [caption id="attachment_178415" align="alignnone" width="642"] (Photographer, Basak Gurbuz Derman/Canva)[/caption] New evidence finds people with schizophrenia hear 'voices in their heads' because their brains mistake their inner speech as external.

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