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Clothes make the man/woman (smarter)
The Sydney Morning Herald: Say you’re getting ready for an exam. You spend hours brushing up on vocabulary; you do hundreds of practice problems – those are good techniques, but you might consider adding a
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Twins born on same day as their twin brothers, 4 years later
NBC: Exactly four years after a British mother gave birth to a pair of twin boys, on July 18, she delivered a second set of naturally conceived twins, according to a report Thursday in the British newspaper
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‘I Knew It All Along…Didn’t I?’ – Understanding Hindsight Bias
The fourth-quarter comeback to win the game. The tumor that appeared on a second scan. The guy in accounting who was secretly embezzling company funds. The situation may be different each time, but we hear
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We Lie When Time Is Short and Fibbing Feels Justified
LiveScience: New research suggests a little time might make us more honest. A study found that people are most likely to lie when they are under time pressure to give an answer and they can
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Brain-Computer Interfaces Are Changing the Way We Communicate
APS Fellow Niels Birbaumer, Professor of Medical Psychology and Behavioral Neurobiology at the University of Tübingen, Germany, studies brain-computer interfaces (BCI). BCIs allow communication from the brain to an external device for patients who otherwise
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Gerichte doelstelling doet tijd sneller gaan (With an objective, time goes faster)
Express Belgium: Aangename activiteiten doen de tijd sneller te lijken gaan, maar vooral de uiteindelijke doelstelling heeft daarin een cruciale functie. Dat is de conclusie van een onderzoek van wetenschappers aan de University of Alabama.