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Reasoning Is Sharper in a Foreign Language
We might be least rational about money in our native tongues.
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Only Half of Drugs Removed by Sewage Treatment
Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants says a new report.
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The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers
We can't tune pianos because prime numbers. // The integers are a unique factorization domain, so we can’t tune pianos. That is the saddest thing I know about the integers.
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Quantum Physics May Be Even Spookier Than You Think
A new experiment hints at surprising hidden mechanics of quantum superpositions
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The Paradox of Karl Popper
The great philosopher, renowned for his ferocious attacks on scientific and political dogmatism, could be quite dogmatic
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The Psychological Power of Satan
How a belief in “pure evil” shapes people’s thinking.
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Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
Philosopher Tim Maudlin sees advances in free will, morality and the meaning of quantum mechanics. (I don't think so, but let's leave it here for reference).
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Borges and Memory: Encounters with the Human Brain
What is the genesis of Funes the Memorious, the Jorge Luis Borges story about a mnemonist that fascinates neuroscientists, and is as famed a fictional treatise on memory as anything but Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past?
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Brain’s Dumped DNA May Lead to Stress, Depression
New research suggests genetic material from the mitochondria can trigger an immune response throughout the body
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The Philosophical Implications of the Urge to Urinate
The state of our body affects how we think the world works
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Mindfulness Training for Teens Fails Important Test
A large trial in schools showed no evidence of benefits, and hints it could even cause problems.
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Why Do We Say That Someone Is Hot?
Scientists are discovering the primal links between physical warmth and our emotions
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A Trillion Worlds
Big-data statistics have revealed, among other things, that our own solar system is kind of an oddball.
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The Utter Failure of Fictional Time Travel
An answer to why we’ve not been visited from the future?
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Shine on you crazy diamond: why humans are carbon-based lifeforms
Everything on earth is made up of combinations of different elements - all of which can be found on the periodic table. Considering that the periodic table contains 118 elements it seems a pity that organic life tends to feature only five or six of those elements in any vast quantities. The main one being carbon.