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So…you can’t understand mathematical concepts? It looks like a foreign language to many, and surely this is just how we are built right? Apparently, there may be a reason why many have problems with math. It’s a neurocognitive disorder that inhibits the acquisition of basic numerical and arithmetic concepts, according to a new paper. Specialised [...]

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What? This isn’t a joke. There was an actual study going on in which scientist were able to trick the brain into the belief that the body was no bigger than a Barbie doll. Henrik Ehrsson and his colleagues at Karolinska Institutet have already managed to create the illusion of body-swapping with other people or [...]

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In my idea for a new ad campaign for alcohol, which frankly is half truths and downright lies at times, we discover that alcohol helps your brain. How? Subconscious memory. “Usually, when we talk about learning and memory, we’re talking about conscious memory,” says Morikawa, whose results were published last month in The Journal of [...]

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There has been more and more talk over recent years about transferring consciousness into a machine that may allow humans to live on long past their bodies. I was actually thinking about this for a short story (it is more comedic than anything, but it had this idea in it) as recent as yesterday. More [...]

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While the obvious is that the extra work time may result in lower grades. The not so obvious is that a study also found many that work more than 20 hours a week during the school year can lead to behavior problems. With the economy as it is right now, many work to help support [...]

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Religion has long been considered a main ingredient in what makes people happy. Some will argue that non-belief is a hopeless existence, and that only belief can make life seem to have a purpose. While I subscribe to neither of these beliefs it is an argument used as the backbone of the “speech” to non-believers [...]

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Poor Fido. Mom leaves him home alone all day and he gets depressed. Why wouldn’t he be pessimistic about his chances of playing fetch the stick in the yard later that evening? Surely they aren’t expecting a new doggy 3-D HDTV from Best Buy to feel like they have friends. Many dogs become distressed when [...]

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The old adage of “Money Can’t Buy Love”, or “Happiness” was put to the test in a survey of 1,000 Americans which showed they are overall fairly happy, but more money equals more satisfaction up to a point, Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton of the Center for Health and Wellbeing at Princeton University in New [...]

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If you have ever taken a psychology class in college, or even high school you are probably quite familiar with the bible of mental disorders which was called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM: DSM IV way back when I owned one). New entries into the manual tend to be a bit [...]

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Found this to be a slightly interesting study. Particularly because when I was a kid I remember trying to convince my friend’s father that I could sing along to any song the first time I ever heard it. Technically that IS true, but for reasons far beyond the scope of my intelligence at the time, [...]

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