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How Social Media After the Boston Bombing Can Be a Recipe for PTSD
Monday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon produced equally horrific images, which in the age of social media news meant a constant, unsolicited bombardment of the gruesome aftermath of a gruesome event.
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Longevity: New Clues to a Long Life
Our genes harbor many secrets to a long and healthy life. And now scientists are beginning to uncover them.
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Why Do We Knock on Wood?
Traditionally, when you speak of your own good fortune, you follow up with a quick knock on a piece of wood to keep your luck from going bad. More recently, simply saying the phrase “knock on wood”—or “touch wood” in the UK—has replaced actually knocking. Where’d all this come from?
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Why Chess Should Be Required in U.S. Schools
ot only does chess help train the brain, but it also teaches children basic life skills. In our culture, we hand out trophies to winners and losers—or neglect to keep score at all—out of some misguided, politically-correct notion that we should never hurt anyone’s feelings.
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5 Ways Your Brain Is Tricking You into Being Miserable
Everyone wants to be happy, but the biggest obstacle to that is the mushy thing inside your skull that you think with.
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Newtown shooter Adam Lanza taunted and beaten by fellow students when he attended Sandy Hook Elementary School
Newtown killer Adam Lanza’s mother considered suing Sandy Hook Elementary School after teachers turned a blind eye to beatings from his classmates, a family member claims.
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Who's Tired? Growing Number of People Get Too Much Sleep
The percentage of people who sleep more than nine hours a night is on the rise.
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Two brothers, two paths
The two young brothers from Cambridge seemed to be on promising paths, one a scholarship student at college, the other fighting for a national title in amateur boxing. And then, apparently with little warning, they veered violently off track, deep into the darkness, setting off deadly bombs, authorities are convinced, at one of Boston's most iconic and joyful events.
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When Do Babies Become Conscious?
For everyone who's looked into an infant's sparkling eyes and wondered what goes on in its little fuzzy head, there's now an answer. New research shows that babies display glimmers of consciousness and memory as early as 5 months old.
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What's Tylenol Doing to Our Minds?
The same pathways that help with physical pain seem to moderate existential distress.
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Why we forget people's names when we meet them... only to remember it again hours later
Experts say our brains are overloaded with things to remember and there can be a delay in recognising what you have been told just minutes before.
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The psychology of hating food (and how we learn to love it)
Kids who hate stinky cheese and greens often grow into adults who can't get enough of them. Why do our tastes seem to transform in our teens? And can we change our tastes deliberately as adults? Here's what scientists know so far.
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Here's Why Alcohol Turns You Into An Emotional Hot Mess
We’ve all been there: You’ve had one too many tequila shots, and instead of partying with the rest of your friends you’re curled up in a corner, sobbing uncontrollably into a bowl of beer nuts and telling a complete stranger about your balloon phobia and how it destroyed your sex life.
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Does Psychiatry Need Science? The Strange Case of Melancholia and the D.S.M.
There is scientific proof that people suffer from a disease called melancholia, but psychiatrists have failed to recognize it—possibly because science is now a threat to the D.S.M. itself.
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Why Women Like Deep Voices and Men Prefer High Ones
We find different pitches attractive because of the body size they signal—and a touch of breathiness is crucial to take the edge off deep voices in men
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4 Good Manners It's Time to Stop Pretending We Care About
There are some social faux pas that, for better or worse, we just need to let go.
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Why Facebook is blue: The science of colors in marketing
How do colors affect us when we buy things? The latest research reveals the science of colors in marketing and how to use it for your advantage:
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Why Sleep Deprivation Eases Depression: Scientific American
Sleep deprivation is a quick and efficient way to treat depression. It works 60 to 70 percent of the time—far better than existing drugs—but the mood boost usually lasts only until the patient falls asleep.
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Starting School Later Makes Teenagers Happier and Smarter
"Making teens start school in the morning is ‘cruel,’ brain doctor claims." So declared a British newspaper headline in 2007 after a talk I gave at an academic conference. One disbelieving reader responded: "This man sounds brain-dead." That was a typical reaction to work I was reporting at the time...
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Answers to Why People Become Terrorists
Terrorism expert Bruce Hoffman unpacks what we know about how homegrown bombers get radicalized.
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