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Odd or Even? Your Brain Sucks

24/12/2013

If the brain is like a computer, why do brains make mistakes that computers don't?...

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Weight Loss is Easier for White Women

22/12/2013

African-American women don't lose as much weight as Caucasian women in response to the same behavioral interventions of calorie restriction....

Suicide Stigma Still Survives

21/12/2013

Explaining why suicide is stigmatized and often considered a taboo topic of conversation...

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Vodka-Fuelled Texts. We’ve All Done It.

20/12/2013

Successfully text messaging 'O Canada' using evaporated vodka. Why ever not?...

Better to Be Right than Happy?

19/12/2013

Doctors see many couples who lead unnecessarily stressful lives by wanting to be right rather than happy....

Fighting Festive Flab

18/12/2013

A daily bout of exercise generates vast physiological benefits even when you consume thousands of calories more than you are burning...

Mathematical Models to Avoid Conflict

15/12/2013

The findings show that this mathematical formula of the form AB-C is a valuable tool that can be applied to make quantitative predictions concerning future attacks in a given confrontation. ...

Trauma Footage Causes Stress Flashbacks

12/12/2013

Acute stress symptoms increased with each additional hour of bombing-related media exposure via television, social media, videos, print or radio....

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Tonguetwisters twist the thoughts too

09/12/2013

Tongue twisters are not just fun to say; it turns out that these sound-related slip-ups can also open windows into the brain's speech-planning processes. ...

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Valley Girls : Is This a Question?

08/12/2013

Uptalk is a part of southern California English that transcends gender boundaries, and several other boundaries as well...

Sex Sells. But not to Women. Unless it’s Expensive.

07/12/2013

Women tend to find ads with sexual imagery off-putting, unless the advertised item is priced high enough....

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Thermionic Generators, Frictionless Energy

05/12/2013

Thermionic generators use the temperature difference between a hot and a cold metallic plate to create electricity....

Facebook Makes Girls Feel Fat

04/12/2013

"Appearance exposure" on the Internet has been linked to body image disturbance among adolescent girls....

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Shake it or lob it? The Caxirola

02/12/2013

For the 2014 World Cup in Brazil, organizers have introduced the maraca-like caxirola as the official instrument of the event. ...

Sexual Frustration = Early Death

01/12/2013

'Expecting sex without any sexual reward was detrimental to their health and cut their lives short.' At least they don't get into fights....

Marriage? Trust Your Gut (Not Tinder)

30/11/2013

"If they can sense that their gut is telling them that there is a problem, then they might benefit from exploring that, maybe even with a professional marriage counselor."...

Killer Australian Beaches. Not in a Good Way.

29/11/2013

Rip currents claim more lives in Australia on average each year than bushfires, floods, cyclones and sharks combined. But probably fewer than funnelwebs, crocs, snakes r disgruntled 'Bra Boys....

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Spindoctors. The Hypnosis of Whirling Dervishes

27/11/2013

'it was the presence of a Coriolis force that was essential in the formation of the different patterns'...

Sport Will Kill Ya

24/11/2013

Too much weekly sport seems to be as bad as too little for teen wellbeing....

A pictue of hedgewars by Aalto University

Gaming makes you samey.

23/11/2013

'the more competitive the gaming gets, the more in sync are the emotional responses of the players'. Computer game research suggests gameplayers become more like each other....

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No Collective Mission. Why Occupy Struggled?

22/11/2013

An overestimation of the group's collective identity may be why Occupy Wall Street struggled...

Engage! Analytics for Musicians and Creatives

21/11/2013

Smart use of analytics can help music companies justify every penny and cent invested in marketing campaigns by identifying who their fans are...

A picture of World of Sex by Carl Byron Batson

Substances, Condoms and Women don’t get on.

20/11/2013

'when a woman has been dating a romantic partner for three months or more, marijuana use may increase the risk of unprotected sex'...

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One (Injured) Man and his Nail Gun

17/11/2013

Young males in the work environment are at greatest risk of sustaining a nail gun injury to their non-dominant hand...

The Cashflow of Cosyness

16/11/2013

By making people feel at home in a commercial space, marketers can turn their own clients into salespeople...

Flunking Sleepy Teenagers

13/11/2013

Teenagers who go to bed late during the school year are more prone to academic and emotional difficulties in the long run. News item...

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Bat Splat. Wind Turbines Meet Flying Mammals

12/11/2013

A new estimate of bat deaths caused by wind turbines...

A picture of water flow by BYU/Chris Mabey, Randy Hurd and Tadd Truscott

Splashback : The Physics of Urination

10/11/2013

Randy Hurd of Brigham Young University hopes to eventually create an optimization function to find the ideal approach for urinal usage. ...

A picture of an empty London street by Carl Byron Batson

A Stab in the Dark : Mugger Patterns

09/11/2013

The first study to look at the hourly pattern of street robbery in London found a 160% rise in the rate of muggings during the hours of darkness in the capital...