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A Sign That Doctors Care More for Their Patients Than Themselves?
The Atlantic: Here’s proof that doctors care more about their patients’ safety than their own. A study has found that doctors tended to ignore signs asking them to wash their hands for the sake of
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Despite Occasional Scandals, Science Can Police Itself
The Chronicle of Higher Education: The public has always been fascinated with the scientific mind, including its corruption. So it is no surprise that the sordid case of the Dutch researcher Diederik Stapel grabbed headlines
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Can Companies, Political Groups or Organizations Have a Single Mind?
News of employee misconduct always creates a whirlwind for the companies involved — think of Enron, Goldman Sachs and UBS, for example. But are these firms responsible for the actions of their employees? Or do
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Impatient people have lower credit scores
Yahoo India: Impatient people default on their mortgages, because they are more likely to chose immediate gain over a larger reward later, researchers say. ‘Most often, the reasons economists put forward are, maybe there was
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Friday Illusion: Ghostly images change shape
NewScientist: Think hard: you can transform a circle into a hexagon using the power of your mind. New animations created by Hiroyuki Ito from Kyushu University show how staring at coloured shapes can produce an
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Why some people never seem to forget a face
MSN India: Face recognition is an important social skill but not many of us are equally good at it, reveals a study. Researcher Jia Liu along with colleagues from Beijing Normal University have demonstrated how
