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Promises come at a price
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jun 30, 2009 |
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Be careful what you promise people. You are not just obliging yourself to keep your promises; other people will hold you to account for them as well. Dutch-sponsored researcher Manuela Vieth investigated how the behaviour ...
Irish student's Wikipedia hoax dupes newspapers
May 07, 2009 |
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An Irish student's fake quote on the Wikipedia online encyclopaedia has been used in newspaper obituaries around the world, the Irish Times reported.
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Could acetaminophen ease psychological pain?
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 22, 2009 |
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Headaches and heartaches. Broken bones and broken spirits. Hurting bodies and hurt feelings. We often use the same words to describe physical and mental pain. Over-the-counter pain relieving drugs have long been used to alleviate ...
Got smell? Research shows that accurate taste perception relies on a functioning olfactory system
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 22, 2009 |
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As anyone suffering through a head cold knows, food tastes wrong when the nose is clogged, an experience that leads many to conclude that the sense of taste operates normally only when the olfactory system is also in good ...
Want to live well? Harvard experts offer pragmatic pointers on getting healthy and staying there
Dec 17, 2009 |
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You are what you eat. You're also how you feel, how you exercise, how you sleep, how you handle money, how you relate to people, and what you value.
Of girls and geeks: Environment may be why women don't like computer science
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- In real estate, it's location, location, location. And when it comes to why girls and women shy away from careers in computer science, a key reason is environment, environment, environment.
Bigger and bossier better for fish families
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- If you are spending the holidays with big Uncle Frank or bossy Aunt Minnie and wondering whether you would be better off with another family, spare a thought for the humble cichlid fish.
How to encourage big ideas
Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study suggests certain types of funding -- which provide more freedom and focus less on near-term results -- lead to more innovative and influential research.
Brain activity exposes those who break promises
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 09, 2009 |
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Scientists from the University of Zurich have discovered the physiological mechanisms in the brain that underlie broken promises. Patterns of brain activity even enable predicting whether someone will break a promise. The ...
Testosterone does not induce aggression
Medicine & Health / Neuroscience
Dec 08, 2009 |
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New scientific evidence refutes the preconception that testosterone causes aggressive, egocentric, and risky behavior. A study at the Universities of Zurich and Royal Holloway London with more than 120 experimental subjects ...
You've Got Freedom: AOL ends ties with Time Warner
Dec 06, 2009 |
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(AP) -- AOL is shaking loose from Time Warner Inc. and heading into the next decade the way it began this one, as an independent company. Unlike in the 1990s, though, when AOL got rich selling dial-up Internet ...
More competitors, less competition
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Dec 03, 2009 |
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The larger the number of examinees, the lower the average grade. This is one of the findings of a series of new studies carried out by scientists at the University of Haifa and the University of Michigan. "It is a well-established ...
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