Consciousness is essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.
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The city of Utrecht will embark on a study involving a small group of mentally ill addicts and a variant of marijuana that’s said to have anti-anxiety and anti-psychotic properties.
Clean spaces may be too conventional for the release of creative ideas.
Pre-birth nutrition contributes to the “programming” of health, well being, brain development and mental performance and that certain nutrients are important to this process.
The power and agility of our brain was by no means necessary to hunt and kill animals, so why did the thinking organ become such an overachiever?
The public gains made by AI, such as beating chess champions and winning Jeopardy tournaments, have ironically also demonstrated its limits.
The Information Age has made humans more managers of knowledge than vessels for it.
You never intended to eat the whole bag of chips, or smoke the entire pack of cigarettes; to keep participating in the mindless WhatsApp fight with your friend, or continue […]
It’s a good season for subterfuge. While the rest of the world is watching Syria – or, more precisely, the omnishambles following Obama’s “red line” in the Syrian sand – […]
The average American changes their career about four times.
The very idea that we can out-behave the competition, that we can be excellent and excel in our behavior, that behavior is the source of advantage is a brand new idea.
Libertarians are constantly arguing with each other who is the most pure libertarian and who is most ideologically pure.
Thanks to its high concentration of antioxidants from flavonoids, orange juice has many potential positive effects when it comes to combatting cancer.
Milk does increase weight and length at birth, and there’s a possibility that this actually tracks into adult life.
The researchers suggest that the genes may also help establish left-right differences in the brain, which in turn influences handedness.
Being able to prompt this behaviour in the body could one day be used to repair ailing organs including the heart, liver, spinal cord and pancreas.
The E. coli could lie dormant in the gut, and activate only once its enemy makes an appearance.
Human tour guides need not worry…yet: Skycall is a proof-of-concept that allows lost visitors to summon help in the form of a small quadcopter.
When I see extreme obfuscation in a company it worries me that this company doesn’t have what it takes to survive and thrive.
This week, a street in the Chinese city of Hangzhou became home to a vending machine that stocks live crabs for 20 yuan (about US$3.27) apiece. The proprietor says it’s for hungry customers who come by after closing time.
Not because winning could turn you into a literal fat cat: Research suggests that simply buying tickets leads to materialistic thoughts followed by diminished self-restraint in the here and now.
The cue and the reward become neurologically intertwined until a sense of craving emerges that drives your behavior.
In an attempt to reform telecommunications, the European Union Commission has suggested, among other things, removing all roaming charges by 2016 in order to provide “full and fair access” across all 28 member nations.
We’ve all been there. The Internet comment section stares at us, blinking its sexy open space, inviting us to put words all over it, to tell the world why the […]
There is often disagreement between what the public considers controversial and what scientists consider controversial.
New research demonstrates that infants as young as eight months old understand that if an object is moving and appears to be in control of its movements, then it’s got something inside it that’s helping it to move.
Nissan’s Nismo smartwatch gives new meaning to the car/driver relationship: It connects to the car’s computer system so that its wearer can receive performance data and other information.
Disney Research’s Ishin-Den-Shin — Japanese for “what the mind thinks, the heart transmits” — converts recorded audio into a signal that passes from person to person through simple touch.
The more that we know how to leverage these social platforms to either donate our time or our energy or our money to either a natural disaster or even to a political revolution the more we can facilitate change.
Starting my own business was kind of a wakeup call in a number of different ways.