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Anatomy Of A Dance Hit: Why We Love To Boogie With Pharrell
NPR: There’s no doubt Pharrell’s “Happy” is the biggest hit of the year so far. It spent 15 weeks at the top of the Billboard 100 and inspired hundreds of fan videos on YouTube. Just a few
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Big Seat, Bad Behavior
If you’ve stacked up a lot of speeding tickets or parking fines in the last several months, you might consider how the size and interior of your vehicle is contributing to the points on your
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Dog People vs. Cat People: Who’s More Outgoing? More Intelligent?
LiveScience: “Dog people” and “cat people” really do have different personalities, according to a new study. People who said they were dog lovers in the study tended to be more lively — meaning they were
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Why That Video Went Viral
The New York Times: There it was, virtual gold: a video of a firefighter resuscitating a kitten trapped in a smoky home. Neetzan Zimmerman, then an editor at Gawker, a news and gossip site, knew it was destined
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Throwback Thursday: The Psychology Behind its Success
CNN: FORTUNE — I archive dive almost every Thursday, searching for the perfect photograph: a shot from one of college’s many Ugly Sweater parties; my best friend and I, 20 pounds lighter, grinning at prom
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You Are What You Eat
The Economist: Many psychological studies conducted over the past two decades suggest Westerners have a more individualistic, analytic and abstract mental life than do East Asians. Several hypotheses have been put forward to explain this.
