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Scientists Use Functional MRI to Read Peoples’ Minds

Scientists are using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to reconstruct images seen by people and read their thoughts. This technology, which is relatively new compared to x-ray imaging techniques, uses the nuclear spin of hydrogen nuclei to construct an image. This makes the technology especially well suited to the imaging of soft tissues, and if [...]

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Two heads actually ARE better than one, if both are competent and communicate!

We may assume or generally believe that collaborating with others helps us to solve problems more effectively and make better decisions, but is it really true? Scientists at University College London and Aarhus University, Denmark did a study that showed that two heads can definitely be better than one, if both partners are competent and [...]

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It’s official: On Facebook, people enjoy actively searching more than just browsing

In a study of 36 Facebook users, it turns out that the participants spent most of their time on social browsing and social searching, but the physiological data indicated that participants experienced more pleasure during the course of social searching than they experienced during social browsing.

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Study: Your confidence in your own thoughts is affected by your posture!

We all know that sometimes other people’s confidence in what we say is affected by our body language, but scientists have now shown that our confidence in our own thoughts is affected the same way! When we sit up straight with great posture, we are more convinced of what we are saying, according to a [...]

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Gut feelings

Have you ever just known which choice you want to make even though there was a long list of rational reasons why that should not be your choice? I read Gut Feelings: The Intelligence of the Unconscious lately and found it fascinating. I’m very aware that my unconscious mind knows exactly what I want to [...]

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Facebook makes jealousy and snooping worse

In a blend of fun internet use and scientific method, we have a study from the peer-reviewed journal Cyberpsychology & Behavior which actually proves that spending more time on Facebook can make jealousy worse, and that then leads to a cycle of obsessively looking at your partner’s Facebook page and finding more evidence for jealousy. [...]

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Two dead in China from pneumonic plague so far – what is pneumonic plague??

You may have heard that two people in China have died lately from pneumonic plague. But what IS pneumonic plague? Pneumonic form of plague is the most virulent and least common form of plague, and is caused by the same bacterium, Yersinia pestis, as the famous bubonic plague. In pneumonic plague, the Y. pestis infects the lungs. People catch pneumonic plague by either

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Declawing

Many loving cat owners don’t realize it, but declawing is amputation of the last joint of the toe. Your cat needs her toes intact, not only for her defense but for her comfort and natural cat agility. There are many ways to keep your cat from destroying your house.

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Play with your cat

Why should you play with your cat? For one thing, cats need the mental and physical exercise. Cats were built to spend a lot of their time hunting for food and hiding from predators, but in their modern domesticated lives they sleep a lot and chew and scratch on things they aren’t supposed to.

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Trakr the 9/11 hero dog cloned

Trakr, the rescue dog who located the last survivor in the rubble following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, has been successfully cloned and his owner, James Symington, has received the five puppies cloned from Trakr.

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