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When things change dramatically we resist it at first and then we adapt and then we love the change.
The following letter was sent by Larry Summers to President Obama, in which he withdrew his name for consideration to be Chairman of the Federal Reserve.
If there’s something you really want to believe, that’s what you should question the most.
My Facebook feed is nothing but homemaking and my Twitter feed is nothing but "Have you heard about this story on Tech Crunch?"
Consciousness is essentially the company president that has to arbitrate all the different mechanisms.
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.