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How a Book about the Future Inspired Me to Look into the Neural Underpinnings of the Past
Scientific American: I’m about to make an embarrassing (to science fiction fans) confession: until last week, I had never read Dune. I wasn’t even aware that I was supposed to have read Dune. Nor did
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Old and On the Road: Can We Train Older Drivers to Be Safer?
Huffington Post: Mr. Magoo, a cartoon regular of early TV, was notorious for his hazardous driving. He was a retiree, befuddled and extremely nearsighted, yet he continued to drive despite these obvious failings. In the
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Numeracy: The Educational Gift That Keeps on Giving?
Cancer risks. Investment alternatives. Calories. Numbers are everywhere in daily life, and they figure into all sorts of decisions. A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological
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You May Be Discriminating Against Your Coworkers And You Don’t Even Know It
Business Insider: People with easier-to-pronounce names have a better chance of being favored and even getting promotions than those with names that don’t flow as well (via BusinessWire). According to a study published in the
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Right Hand or Left? How the Brain Solves a Perceptual Puzzle
When you see a picture of a hand, how do you know whether it’s a right or left hand? This “hand laterality” problem may seem obscure, but it reveals a lot about how the brain
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That bad attitude? Blame the birth month
Los Angeles Times: If you don’t believe in horoscopes, you’re in step with science. But that’s not the same as saying the season of your birth cannot affect your fate. Hundreds of studies, published in