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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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Aubrey De Grey On Pensions RadioHere's a podcast interview with biomedical gerontologist Aubrey de Grey, conducted by two commenters on the UK pension industry.
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Commentary: World's biggest fish are dying - CNN.comTed Danson is an Emmy Award-winning actor, a founding board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated solely to ocean conservation, and narrator of a new film, "End of the Line." My friend Charles Clover, then a reporter for the U.K.'s Telegraph, wrote an ...
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Apes and humans share a common laughing ancestor - life - 04 June 2009 - New ScientistLaughter is not uniquely human. Researchers who tickled 25 juvenile apes – including three human infants – and recorded the sounds they made say that laughter seems to be shared by all great apes. That would mean laughter dates back some 10 to 16 million years, to our common ancestor. Some have ...
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Can illegal drugs help depression? - Times OnlineMany people will enjoy some yoga or meditation this weekend. Both practices have proven health benefits, but for some people knowing that it works is never enough. They have to know why it works - what is really happening in the brain - and they will stop at nothing to find out, even if it ...
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BBC NEWS | UK | Have you heard 'the Hum'?By James Alexander BBC News For decades, hundreds of people worldwide have been plagued by an elusive buzzing noise known as "the Hum". Some have blamed gas pipes or power lines, others think their ears are faulty. A few even think sinister forces could be at work. "It's a kind of ...
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Can fractals make sense of the quantum world? - physics-math - 30 March 2009 - New ScientistQUANTUM theory just seems too weird to believe. Particles can be in more than one place at a time. They don't exist until you measure them. Spookier still, they can even stay in touch when they are separated by great distances. Einstein thought this was all a bit much, believing it to be ...
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The neural exploitation hypothesisMirror neurons and the social nature of language: The neural exploitation hypothesis This paper discusses the relevance of the discovery of mirror neurons in monkeys and of the mirror neuron system in humans to a neuroscientific account of primates’ social cognition and its ...
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Brain lives at "edge of chaos"U.K. researchers are offering new evidence that the human brain lives “on the edge of chaos,” at a critical transition point between randomness and order. The study, published March 20 in the research journal PLoS Computational Biology, provides experimental data ...
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To tweet, or not to tweet?That is the question. The answer? Who knows! In the meantime, anything goes on Twitter - Twitter has gone mainstream, big time. Much has been written about Twitter etiquette, or "Twittiquette," which is concerned mainly with what to do and what not to do on the microblogging service itself. But ...
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