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2 years ago+16 16 0Will This Device Protect Athletes’ Brains, or Only Make Them Think It Does?
More and more pro and college athletes are trying on the Q-Collar as they search for something, anything, that might keep their brains safe. But does it work?
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2 years ago+7 7 0Why Society Goes Easy on Rapists
I started compiling a list of sexual assailants who got no prison time almost by accident. Twitter makes it easy: You stumble across a case where a man in Anchorage, Alaska, spent no time behind bars for strangling to unconsciousness a woman he mastu ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0Some day soon we might be making popcorn with infrared poppers
Most of us rely on counter-top air poppers or microwaves to whip up a tasty popcorn snack. But infrared cooking offers another viable alternative, according to a September paper published in the journal ACS Food Science and Technology. Popcorn is the ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Psychedelic drugs may launch a new era in psychiatric treatment, brain scientists say
One of the hottest tickets at this year's Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego was a session on psychedelic drugs. About 1,000 brain scientists squeezed into an auditorium at the San Diego Convention Center for the symposium, called Psy ...
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2 years ago+19 19 0Netflix password sharing may be illegal, says UK government
The Intellectual Property Office said the practice might break criminal and civil law.
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2 years ago+12 12 0Earth's next mass extinction 'will happen by 2100 killing quarter of species'
More than a quarter of the world’s animals and plants will go extinct by the end of the century, warns a new study. The terrifying conclusion comes after scientists consulted one of Europe’s most advanced supercomputers.
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2 years ago+3 3 0Up to 9% of LSD and psilocybin users report reoccurring effects after drug has worn off
New research published in the journal Psychopharmacology explored the occurrence of flashback phenomena — drug-like effects that spontaneously recur following hallucinogen exposure. The results from six placebo-controlled studies revealed that flashb ...
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2 years ago+3 3 0Is Sending a Christmas Card Good for Your Health?
Our study showed a correlation between sending Christmas cards and depression.
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2 years ago+12 12 0China Covid: BBC journalist detained by police during protests
Ed Lawrence was beaten and arrested by Shanghai police while covering anti-government rallies.
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2 years ago+15 15 0Zelenskyy accuses Russia of war crimes in Ukraine’s Kherson
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has accused Russian soldiers of committing war crimes and killing civilians in Kherson, which was retaken by Ukraine last week. “Investigators have already documented more than 400 Russian war crimes. Bodies of ...
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2 years ago+22 22 0Amazon is reportedly putting its Alexa personal-assistant division under review as it seeks to cut costs across unprofitable businesses
Looks like no one is safe in this economy, including Amazon's Alexa. Amazon is joining other tech giants like Meta, Twitter, and Microsoft and taking a long, hard look at its least profitable businesses, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Meta Quest Pro review: A very expensive VR experiment that doesn't have a target audience
After spending about two weeks with it, here’s my takeaway: The Pro has an identity crisis. At $1,500, it’s far too expensive to be considered a consumer device for gaming. Unfortunately, most of the apps on the device haven’t been optimized for the ...
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2 years ago+11 11 0Anger Exacerbates Political Bias
There have been many studies and popular articles about the effect that fear-mongering has on people’s political attitudes since Donald Trump arrived on the scene. Fearful messages designed to make individuals feel that their existence or worldview i ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0God of War Ragnarok Confirmed To Include Performance Mode On PS4 Pro
Sony Santa Monica has confirmed the resolution and frame rate for God of War Ragnarok on PS4 and PS5. Here’s what you need to know about it. According to Sony Santa Monica Studio, God of War Ragnarok will support an unlocked frame rate on the PS4 Pro ...
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2 years ago+4 4 0How ants find their way
Insects use a wide range of tools for orientation, including visual memory, smell, and counting steps. The tricky question is how they combine and compute different kinds of inputs, and whether their methods can help us understand more complex brains ...
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2 years ago+21 21 0Apple pauses gambling ads on App Store product pages after developer outcry
It’s hard to imagine anyone but advertisers being happy with Apple for putting more ads on the page in App Store listings, but the way they rolled it out was especially troubling. Ads for shady gambling apps quickly pervaded the platform, appearing i ...
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2 years ago+14 14 0Job Listing Hints At The Last of Us Stand-Alone Multiplayer Being Free To Play
The Last of Us has always been praised for its single-player narrative, but the game also features a surprisingly good multiplayer mode. Despite the enjoyable multiplayer mode, Last of Us 2 chose to launch as a single-player-only title.
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2 years ago+14 14 0Netflix Bet $300 Million On Ryan Murphy — They’d Be Fools Not To Give Him Even More
There are few names in the television industry more divisive than Ryan Murphy. His work has inspired everything from glowing profiles in The New Yorker to long essays about his creative flaws and a million articles in between. But no matter what your ...
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2 years ago+12 12 0Rockets strike mayor's office in separatist, Russia-occupied Donetsk
Pro-Kremlin officials on Sunday blamed Ukraine for a rocket attack that struck the mayor’s office in a key Ukrainian city controlled by the separatists as Russia’s war nears the eight-month mark. Meanwhile, Ukrainian officials said Russian rockets st ...
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2 years ago+17 17 0Kanye West: ‘The Jewish media blocked me out’ after anti-Semitic posts
Kanye West, poster of anti-Semitic rants, doesn’t understand why “the Jewish media” has stopped covering him. “They blocked me out. The Jewish media blocked me out,” the controversial rapper fumed in Sunday’s episode of Revolt TV’s “Drink Champs” pod ...