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Voice-Activated Technology Is Called Safety Risk for Drivers
The New York Times: As concerns have intensified about driver distraction from electronic gadgets, automakers have increasingly introduced voice-activated systems that allow drivers to keep their hands on the wheel and eyes on the road.
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Blood vessels in eye linked with IQ
Zee News: The width of blood vessels in the retina can be a biomarker for brain health, a new study has suggested. Research shows that younger people who score low on intelligence tests, such as
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8 New Ways of Looking at Intelligence
TIME: The science of learning is a relatively new discipline born of an agglomeration of fields: cognitive science, psychology, philosophy, neuroscience. As with anything to do with our idiosyncratic and unpredictable species, there is still a
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People Who Hold Extreme Attitudes Feel Superior in Their Beliefs Even for Trivial Issues
Katrina Jongman-Sereno, a 2013 APS Student Research Award recipient from Duke University, presented her work on “People Who Hold Extreme Attitudes Feel Superior in Their Beliefs Even for Trivial Issues” at the 25th APS Annual
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The Riddle of Consciousness
The New Yorker: A few weeks ago, while staying with my in-laws, my four-month-old son woke up at two-thirty in the morning. He was hungry, and, knowing that he would not be coaxed back to
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People Are Overly Confident in Their Own Knowledge, Despite Errors
A collection of new studies confirms that overprecision is a common and robust form of overconfidence driven, in part, by excessive certainty in the accuracy of our judgments.