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Climate science update: from bad to worse - Yahoo! NewsThe planet could warm by seven degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) this century, a figure that lies at the farthest range of expert predictions made only two years ago, scientists said on Tuesday. The study is the biggest overview on global warming since the UN Intergovernmental Panel on ...
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Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - life - 28 August 2009 - New ScientistIMAGINE you are an experienced martial arts referee. You are asked to score a number of taekwondo bouts, shown to you on video. In each bout, one combatant is wearing red, the other blue. Would clothing colour make any difference to your impartial, expert judgement? Of course it wouldn't. Yet ...
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Eckhart Tolle: Interview by John ParkerQuick Navigation: This morning we are speaking with Eckhart Tolle. As a note of introduction, can you share with us where you grew up and how it impacted your outlook on life? Yes. I was born in Germany, where I lived for the first thirteen years of my life. At age thirteen I moved to Spain ...
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Schizophrenics see through hollow-mask illusion - health - 07 April 2009 - New ScientistTelling the front from the back of a mask can be more difficult than it seems. Thanks to an effect called the hollow-mask illusion, the brain can have trouble deciding if the image is convex or concave. But, it seems, not everyone struggles to correctly determine the mask's orientation. New ...
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Entangled Minds: Water crystal replication studyWater crystal replication study Radin, D., Lund, N., Emoto, M., Kizu, T. (2008). Effects of distant intention on water crystal formation: A triple-blind replication. Journal of Scientific Exploration , 22(4), 481-493. An experiment tested the hypothesis that water exposed to distant ...
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Nanotechnology appears to fail the moral litmus test of religionWhen it comes to nanotechnologies, Americans have a big problem: Nanotechnology and its capacity to alter the fundamentals of nature, it seems, are failing the moral litmus test of religion. In a report published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, survey results from the United States and ...
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Welcome | EVIL GENESEVIL GENES: A nonfiction thriller***Watch Barbara Oakley on Book TV***Evil Genes is a unique non-fiction thriller inspired in part by author Barbara Oakley's unusual sister, an amoral woman who died under mysterious circumstances. Inspiration came as well from Oakley’s exceptionally broad ...
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Gossip more powerful than truth - New Zealand's source for oddstuff - strange, weird & bizarre news on Stuff.co.nzGossip is more powerful than truth, a study showed, suggesting people believe what they hear through the grapevine even if they have evidence to the contrary.Researchers, testing students using a computer game, also found gossip played an important role when people make decisions, said Ralf ...
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The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the next-generation internetThis paper proposes the creation of an Augmented Social Network (ASN) that would build identity and trust into the architecture of the Internet, in the public interest, in order to facilitate introductions between people who share affinities or complementary capabilities across social networks. ...
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Intelligent people 'less likely to believe in God' - TelegraphReplace Bob with Many Bobs and Sue with Many Sues ;-) I believe in the power of the mind, conscious and in particular subconscious. And that can both play tricks on us - and provide intuitions which may appear almost magical. There was also this theory of sleep that said that sleep is used to ...Bent Rasmussen added to Conscious Awareness 18 months ago