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Anne Goldberg Dances Her PhD
If you’re a PhD student with mad dancing skills, Science and TEDxBrussels have the contest for you. Dance Your PhD is again offering $1,000 for the best video. This example may provide just the inspiration
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Goldie Hawn Plunges into Brain Science
Scientific American: Aspen, Colorado. When I arrived at the Aspen Meadows Resort for the Second Annual Aspen Brain Forum last Thursday evening, Goldie Hawn was getting out of a vehicle near the entrance. I knew
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Dan Ariely: How to Pay People
Bloomberg Businessweek: Most of the time, when you hire people you don’t want to specify exactly what they are to do and how much they would get paid—you don’t want to say if you do
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Shocking “prison” study 40 years later: What happened at Stanford?
CBS News: It’s considered one of the most notorious psychology experiments ever conducted – and for good reason. The “Stanford prison experiment” – conducted in Palo Alto, Calif. 40 years ago – was conceived by
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Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change
London Evening Standard: Redirect provides an intelligent person’s introduction to psychology, a field that gives rise to more quackery and charlatanism than almost any other. That alone makes it worth reading. The fact that it
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Non voters
CBC The Homestretch: In the recent PC leadership vote, Gary Mar emerged as the clear favourite, but many registered PC voters stayed home that day. Mar’s team is hoping that if those party members come