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Happy days: Human brain now registers smiley face emoticon as real facial expression
The human brain has adapted to react to emoticons in the same way we would to expressions on real human faces, new research suggests.
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The Narcissistic Injury of Middle Age
As we pass our prime, it is with a growing awareness that younger people coming after us haven’t yet reached their peak. Those who can’t bear the shift to a supporting role may become increasingly narcissistic in the unhealthy sense of the word.
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Spike Lee’s Comments On NYC Gentrification Spark Debate In Fort Greene - CBS New York
During a lecture at Pratt Institute Tuesday, the director and Brooklyn native said that white newcomers to neighborhoods like Fort Greene and Bedford-Stuyvesant are doing the wrong things.
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Hannah Johnson: "Harrison Ford's Biceps"
Vancouver Poetry Slam. Hannah Johnson, spoken word poem: "Harrison Ford's Biceps."
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The Confidence Gap
Evidence shows that women are less self-assured than men—and that to succeed, confidence matters as much as competence. Here's why, and what to do about it.
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Favoritism, not hostility, causes most discrimination
Most discrimination in the U.S. is not caused by intention to harm people different from us, but by ordinary favoritism directed at helping people similar to us, according to a theoretical review.
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How Students Cheat Online
Can they be stopped?
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Life Isn't For Later, It's For Right Now
And then, suddenly, you wake up one day and say: Huh. I’ve arrived. And by Joe, I feel pretty much the same as I’ve always felt. In fact, I’m not so sure that I don’t feel a little bit cheated. Because, you see, you were fooled.
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The End of ‘Genius’
The idea of the solitary creator is a myth that has outlived its usefulness.
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Why Do We Forget People's Names as Soon as We Meet Them?
Once, at a party, I was introduced to a friend of a friend. We shook hands, I told her my name, she told me hers. Then she did something that I was ever so grateful for. "Hang on," she said. "Can you say your name again? I wasn't really listening." She saved me from having to later—possibly even at the same party—sheepishly admit that I, too, had already forgotten her name...
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Is the Age of the Psychopath Over?
Look around you. Out on the street, all those faces. They look just like you. But some of them aren’t like you at all. They’re so different, they might as well be another species. They are the secret masters of this world, and they always have been. How technology is creating an age of empathy...
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Limits to Growth was right. New research shows we're nearing collapse
Graham Turner and Cathy Alexander: Four decades after the book was published, Limit to Growth’s forecasts have been vindicated by new Australian research. Expect the early stages of global collapse to start appearing soon...
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Why Did Charity Johnson Pretend To Be A Teenager For 20 Years?
The 34-year-old Texas woman didn’t want to steal money or hurt anyone. So why did she trick people all over the country into believing she was still in high school?
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High-flying CEO quits after daughter writes list of 22 milestones he missed
The head of a $2 trillion investment fund has revealed he quit his job after his 10-year-old daughter wrote him a note listing 22 special moments in her life he had missed.
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Elon Musk Is Right: Colonizing the Solar System Is Humankind's Insurance Policy Against Extinction
Why blow billions of dollars on space exploration when billions of people are living in poverty here on Earth? You’ve likely heard the justifications. The space program brings us useful innovations and inventions. Space exploration delivers perspective, inspiration, and understanding. Because it’s the final frontier. Because it’s there.
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Why We Gossip: It's Really All About Ourselves
New research from the Netherlands finds stories we hear about others help us determine how we're doing.
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Science: Your Eye Color Reveals A Lot About You
They say the eyes are a window to the soul, but they can also be a window to your genes. Did you know…
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New evidence for innate knowledge
15.03.11 - Do we have innate knowledge? Neuroscientists working on Blue Brain Project at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) are finding proof that this is the case. They’ve discovered that neurons make connections independently of a subject’s experience. Their results have been published in an article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
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Arima
Arima is a Q&A website for mass opinion. Ask questions, get answers from users all around the world, and see how you compare to the rest of the planet.
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Can’t Clap to the Beat? You Might be Beat-Deaf
For some people, tapping their foot to the beat is a challenge at a fundamental level.
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