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We have old genes that are well adapted to living in some previous environment that are constantly encountering new environments.
Stress at critical periods of development can be bad for the developing brain.
As long as the stress is transient, and then taken away, that seems to be a feature that leads to better stress responses later on.
Family size is a much larger determinate of personality than the order of one’s birth.
Brushing your teeth with the wrong hand can increase things that might matter to you much more, like sticking with an exercise program.
The foul distinction belongs to ancient cousins of ours: cyanobacteria.
People will not gloat about success. They will gloat about failure. It’s just the fact of life.
You have to love the process of starting from scratch.
When you’re young you really don’t have the concept of failure.
Guess what else is as unique as your fingerprint and can be scanned using a special infrared camera? Scientists in India have created an algorithm that can analyze such scans to over 97 percent accuracy.
When Reinhold Niebuhr wrote The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness in 1944, he was discussing democracy, which was coming under attack during world war two. He did […]
Listen to a recording of students’ excoriating an NSA recruiter.
Scientists say their new storage method — which consists of encoding data on self-assembled nanostructures in fused quartz using a very fast laser — could preserve immense amounts of data long after human civilization has ended.
TouchKeys is a sensor-based system that enables a pianist to slide and wiggle their fingers just like a guitarist to produce the same types of sound effects. Unlike other systems, this one preserves the original keyboard design.
The regenerative abilities of flatworms allow them to regrow their memories.
It might look similar to a material, developed by an engineer at North Carolina State University, that received high praise from attendees at a recent conference.
Designed at Chicago’s Toyota Technological Institute, it can help a car figure out its location even when it’s under a bridge or going through a tunnel…a useful skill in the coming driverless age.
Why open access makes no sense (with a satirical slant).
It is so hot in Death Valley that you can fry an egg outside using nothing but the sun and a skillet.
Participants at a recent two-day event at Stanford University followed the hackathon model to come up with business solutions in the growing field of food innovation.
If degree-of-blindness is measurable (which it is), then researchers should, in fact, measure it and disclose it as part of any study that’s purported to be “blinded.”
Under what circumstances would I agree to disagree?
Two designers are using unlikely materials — the shell of a common water pest and a bio-ethanol waste product — to create a new generation of bioplastics.
I had found a new way to express myself, and it was with words.
Psychiatry’s bible is also its worst enemy.
The parents have to go well outside of their comfort zone.
We live in a curious moment when medical progress is making it possible to eliminate many conditions exactly as social progress is making it possible to celebrate them.
The premise of many business books is to boldly go where no business book has ever gone before, to gather more data, to interview more executives, to read more articles […]
If everybody could fly the inability to fly would become a disability.