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Some Biologists Find an Urge in Human Nature to Help - NYTimes.comWe May Be Born With an Urge to Help What is the essence of human nature? Flawed, say many theologians. Vicious and addicted to warfare, wrote Hobbes. Selfish and in need of considerable improvement, think many parents. But biologists are beginning to form a generally sunnier view of ...
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Suicide in France: Bonjour tristesse | The Economist - Random Collection from WebThe French suicide rate is 14.6 per 100,000 people, according to the OECD. Men are particularly prone: 22.8, against 7.5 for women. This puts the suicides over 20 months at France Telecom, which employs just over 100,000 ...
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You're never too old to learn - Teaching, Learning, Information Technology ToolsThat old saying, “your mind as is sharp as a steel trap”, seems to hold true for seniors well into their 80s, according to a new study by led by a Ryerson University researcher.
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Winners wear red: How colour twists your mind - life - 28 August 2009 - New ScientistEditorial: Red alert IMAGINE 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 ...
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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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Chimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game Science - Politics and BusinessChimpanzees Are Rational Maximizers in an Ultimatum Game Science Traditional models of economic decision-making assume that people are self-interested rational maximizers. Empirical research has demonstrated, however, that people will take into account the interests of others and are ...
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poetry and scienceVolume 56, Number 13 · August 13, 2009 When Science & Poetry Were Friends By Freeman Dyson The Age of Wonder means the period of sixty years between 1770 and 1830, commonly called the Romantic Age. It is most clearly defined as an age of poetry. As every English schoolchild of my ...
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New Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum MysteriesNew Law of Physics Could Explain Quantum Mysteries The Invariant Set Postulate differentiates between reality and unreality, suggesting the existence of a state space, within which a smaller subset of state space (reality) is embedded. Image is from the Christus-Pavilion in Volkenroda, ...
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Did an ice age boost human brain size? - life - 29 July 2009 - New ScientistIT IS one of the biggest mysteries in human evolution. Why did we humans evolve such big brains, making us the unrivalled rulers of the world? Some 2.5 million years ago, our ancestors' brains expanded from a mere 600 cubic centimetres to about a litre. Two new studies suggest it is no fluke ...
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New links between lucid dreaming and psychosis could revive dream therapy in psychiatryNew links between lucid dreaming and psychosis could revive dream therapy in psychiatry Similarities in brain activity during lucid dreaming and psychosis suggest that dream therapy may be useful in psychiatric treatment, a European Science Foundation (ESF) workshop has found. This is ...
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