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Study disputes testosterone aggression link - Yahoo! NewsA new study challenges the common belief that testosterone causes aggression in humans and proposes instead that the hormone encourages status-seeking behaviour, the journal Nature reported Tuesday. The study involving 120 women also showed that folk wisdom about the effects of the sexual ...
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Narc on Your Boss, Get Cool Cash | Threat Level | Wired.comIt’s that time of year again, when bankers can expect those five- and six-figure bonuses. But if you didn’t become rich off the financial bailout, here’s another way to take advantage of The Man — this man being your boss, of course. Just rat him/her out to the Business Software Alliance for ...
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Malalai Joya: The woman who will not be silenced - World, News - The IndependentEnraged by Taliban oppression Malalai Joya became a women’s rights activist, and after the US-led invasion, took on the new regime as an MP. But speaking out has come at a cost. She tells Johann Hari why death threats won’t stop her exposing ugly truths about Afghanistan. The warlords who make ...
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Fish can learn despite small brains | Science | ReutersA small fish found in streams across Europe has a human-like ability to learn, British scientists reported Wednesday. The nine-spined stickleback could be the first animal to exhibit a key human social learning strategy that allows it to compare the behavior of others to its own experience and ...
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How Room Designs Affect Your Work and Mood: Scientific American# Architects have long intuited that the places we inhabit can affect our thoughts, feelings and behaviors. Now behavioral scientists are giving their hunches an empirical basis. # Scientists are unearthing tantalizing clues about how to design spaces that promote creativity, keep students ...
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Unconscious thought precedes conscious | Incognito | The EconomistConscious and unconscious thought Evidence mounts that brains decide before their owners know about it EVERYONE has had the experience. You are confronted by a complex problem, with a not-so-obvious solution. You pore over it, engrossed, but still the answer will not come. Fearing you will ...
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Unconscious thought precedes conscious | Incognito | The EconomistEvidence mounts that brains decide before their owners know about it EVERYONE has had the experience. You are confronted by a complex problem, with a not-so-obvious solution. You pore over it, engrossed, but still the answer will not come. Fearing you will be stuck for ever, you take a walk. ...
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Facebook U-turn returns little power to users - tech - 19 February 2009 - New ScientistThe world's fastest growing social networking site Facebook has been at the centre of a media storm this week after a blog noticed the company's terms and conditions had been altered to let it sell or share the data of users that have closed their accounts. After outraged users launched a ...
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We’re all living in Darwin’s world - Science- msnbc.comActor Andy Harrison takes on the role of Charles Darwin while cameras record the scene at Darwin's grave at London's Westminster Abbey. On the 200th anniversary of Darwin's birth, scientists and pundits are focusing on the British naturalist's long-lived impact. Evolutionary theory has ...
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Intelligence predicts sperm quality | Balls and brains | The EconomistTHERE are few better ways of upsetting a certain sort of politically correct person than to suggest that intelligence (or, rather, the variation in intelligence between individuals) is under genetic control. That, however, is one implication of a paper about to be published in Intelligence by ...
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