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Drunk Eyewitnesses Are Just As Reliable As Sober Eyewitnesses
Would you trust the testimony of a witness who admitted to being drunk while observing a crime? You should.
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A Mass Shooter’s Tragic Past
Amy Bishop, a neurobiologist at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, sat down at the conference table just moments before the faculty meeting began. Inside her handbag was a gun.
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Adults with dyslexia improve when pushed to read faster
People with dyslexia are often taught to work through reading by ‘slowing down and sounding it out’. Results from a computerized training program, however, suggest that ‘hurrying up and getting on with it’ might be a better practice. Accelerated training could improve both reading fluency and comprehension, with lasting benefits.
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Why Are We So Afraid of Being Hit by a Subway Train?
There are a million ways to die in the city, and getting hit by a subway train is one of them. It happens just a few dozen times a year, and it happened again today. But after two high-profile subway murders this winter, one of which was controversially displayed on the front page of the New York Post, the perception of the danger has grown.
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When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?
Joseph Hall, an abused and neglected 10-year-old, was convicted last month of murdering his father, a neo-Nazi leader. His sentencing is scheduled for this week — but who do you punish when a child becomes a cold-blooded killer?
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5 Psych Experiments That Sounded Fun (Until They Started)
All these experiments were very real and sounded very awesome. On the surface. The truth was a very different kind of animal.
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How Crazy Is Too Crazy to Be Executed?
The voices told Andre Thomas to gouge out his eyes. But even that hasn't convinced the state of Texas to reconsider his death sentence.
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What Do Grown Children Owe Their Terrible, Abusive Parents?
What do we owe our tormentors? It’s a question that haunts those who had childhoods marked by years of neglect and deprivation, or of psychological, physical, and sexual abuse at the hands of one or both parents.
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You Can Tell A Lot About A Person By Watching Them Cross The Street
You will be shocked by how much you can tell about a person just by watching them cross the street.
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Sleeping Children Learn Better Than Adults
While you're asleep, your brain is busy updating and rebooting. It takes the information you've gathered throughout the day subconsciously and processes it into explicit, conscious knowledge. Children usually perform worse than adults at cognitive tasks, but a new study shows that they are significantly better at this process of implicit to explicit conversion than adults.
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Hotelling's Law: Why Everything Starts to Look the Same
Why do Burger King and McDonald's start to sell the same salad? There's a name for that phenomenon.
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Every year in China, 287,000 people end their lives by suicide
Every three minutes, a person suffering from depression commits suicide in China and a further 11 people attempt to take their own lives.
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Pessimists Live Longer Than Optimists
Worrying takes years off your life, right? Well, maybe not. Pessimists rejoice: happy-go-lucky, care-free peers of yours probably won’t live as long as you. New research suggests that the downers wind up outlasting the uppers. Read more: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/pessimists-live-longer-than-optimists/#ixzz2MNpEJpxn Follow us: @SmithsonianMag on Twitter
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Is Internet Addiction Real? [infographic]
Today’s graphic poses the questions we’ve all asked ourselves in the past. Are we addicted to this series of tubes?
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Science Explains Why Our Best Ideas Come in the Shower
Ever wonder why some of your best ideas seem to come out of the blue (while you're in the shower, for example)? Creativity, while seemingly a very vague activity, is actually a distinct process triggered by a few key factors.
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Human Peptide Hypocretin Linked to Happiness
An international team of scientists has found that levels of a peptide called hypocretin increase when humans are happy but decrease when they are sad.
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Why We Love... Single Player Games
Why We Love... Single Player Games. Read reviews or compare prices to find the cheapest deal on the game or console - Dealspwn.com
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Chewing gum can help maintain concentration
A new study builds on earlier investigations that discovered chewing gum can improve concentration in visual memory tasks.
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Digital etiquette: What your email sign-off says about you
Are you more of a "warmly" person? Or does "best" better suit your style?
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Source: Lanza studied previous mass killings
State Police investigators who executed search warrants at the Yogananda Street home where the 20-year-old Lanza lived recovered reams of documents related to virtually every mass murder in the United States and abroad, the source said.
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