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Overcoming Bias : Pretty Pols WinMore evidence suggesting Politics Isn’t About Policy: Beautiful candidates are indeed more likely to be elected, with a one standard deviation increase in beauty associated with a 1 ½– 2 percentage point increase in voteshare. Our results are robust to several specification checks: adding party ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pride Is About StatusWe used 3 different … [ways] to test whether the nonverbal expression of pride sends a functional, automatically perceived signal about a social group member’s increased social status. Results suggest that the pride expression strongly signals high status, and this association cannot be ...
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Overcoming Bias : Pondering PanspermiaPondering Panspermia Over the last few days I’ve neglected my duties to obsessively browse the last seven years of three journals: Astrobiology, International Journal of Astrobiology , and Origins of Life . In the process I’ve become converted to a more expansive version panspermia – life ...
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Overcoming Bias : A Galactic GardenA Galactic Garden In August I wrote : A few years ago PCW Davies persuasively argued that Earth life more likely started on Mars. Last year, Napier and coauthors argued that comets are an even more likely source: A single comet of radius 10 km and 30% volume fraction of clay contains ...
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Babble Of Baby Reveals Language SkillsChildren have a remarkable ability to learn new languages. As little as five hours of exposure to a second language is enough to help infants incorporate characteristics of that language into their babbling according to a new study. Studies conducted during the last 25 years have shown that ...
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Brain maps help guide you through large-scale space, researchers findLost? Not sure how to get home? Trying to find your way through the mall or an airport? Help is on the way, thanks to a stack of cells, or neurons, in your head. They're mostly on the left side of the brain in males, on the right in females. Scientists have long known that a small, ...
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Gamma-ray photon race ends in dead heat; Einstein wins this roundRacing across the universe for the last 7.3 billion years, two gamma-ray photons arrived at NASA's orbiting Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope within nine-tenths of a second of one another. The dead-heat finish may stoke the fires of debate among physicists over Einstein's special theory of ...
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Why dolphins are deep thinkers | Science | The GuardianAt the Institute for Marine Mammal Studies in Mississippi, Kelly the dolphin has built up quite a reputation. All the dolphins at the institute are trained to hold onto any litter that falls into their pools until they see a trainer, when they can trade the litter for fish. In this way, the ...
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Science Centric | News | Study shows that sleep deprivation can negatively affect information processingA study in the 1 November issue of the journal Sleep shows that sleep deprivation causes some people to shift from a more automatic, implicit process of information categorisation (information-integration) to a more controlled, explicit process (rule-based). This use of rule-based strategies in ...
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MER Update 103109 - Spirit Overcomes Setbacks, Opportunity Takes Magical Meteorite TourThe Mars Exploration Rover mission logged another textbook-rewriting month in October 2009 with more discoveries of geologic gems, new robot achievements balanced with equal amounts of challenges and frustrations overcome, topped off with special honors. Spirit spent most of the month ...
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