Deb will share a unique analysis of altruistic behavior that encompasses two seemingly dissimilar examples: The Underground Railroad and the Wiki (crowd-sourced information) movement.
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A new study from the Pew Research Center found that more and more teens are leaving Facebook in favor of social media platforms that are "less drama."
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It’s hard to tell sometimes what’s real and what’s bluster in the world of arms development, but it’s notable nonetheless that Russian Deputy
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Polman’s research is a good reminder that social status matters, but not always in the way you might think.
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What is going on in the brain of someone who has the deluded belief that they are brain dead? A team of researchers led by neuropsychologist Vanessa Charland-Varville at CHU Sart-Tilman Hospital and the University of Liege has attempted to find out by scanning the brain of a depressed patient who held this very belief.
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We all know that the Earth rotates beneath our feet, but new research from ANU has revealed that the centre of the Earth is out of sync with the rest of the planet, frequently speeding up and slowi...
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Associate Professor Hrvoje Tkalcic from the ANU College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences and his team used earthquake doublets to measure the rotation speed of Earth’s inner core over the last 50 years.
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It would take a lot of food to get astronauts to Mars, but what if they could get whatever they wanted at the push of a button? NASA is funding an
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How much would you pay for a grilled cheese sandwich?$6? Maybe $7, if it was deliciously fresh and you were really hungry?
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Measure your pulse in real-time with Fujitsu's facial imaging technology (http://www.diginfo.tv/v/13-0034-r-en.php) 14/5/2013 Fujitsu Laboratories, Fujitsu R...
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http://sndrv.nl/ultimarker - augmenting your Ultimaker 3D printer. Both 3D printing and augmented reality are seen as the two most impactful and radical inno...
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These shapes were 3D printed entirely from sugar by Sugar Lab. By transforming sugar into a dimensional, structural medium, it becomes a printing material.
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The study, published online inEvolutionary Applications, not only shows how bird songs can vary, but demonstrates how combining satellite data with field studies can trace the evolution and variation of any species. It is also the first study to ever use satellite data to track variation of earth-bound species of animals or plants.
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Men and women pay attention to babies differently
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A new approach to brain imaging called CLARITY could revolutionize how scientists study the brain. Researchers replaced a mouse brain’s opaque fats with a clear gel that supports neural tissue, resulting in a transparent organ with all its internal structures still intact and visible for study. Unhindered observation of the entire brain’s neural circuitry will help “clarify” scientists’ understanding of how this still-mysterious organ functions.
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Children who are exposed to secondhand smoke in early childhood are more likely to grow up to physically aggressive and antisocial, regardless of whether they were exposed during pregnancy or their parents have a history of being antisocial.
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Researchers say the colors we find in music are actually the colors of the emotions the music makes us feel.
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May 21, 5:30 PM
Landscape still littered with mines two decades after wars ended.
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A team of Croatian researchers are training honeybees to sniff out unexploded mines that still pepper the Balkans.
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May 21, 5:23 PM
Differences divide us. Human society fractures along lines defined by politics, religion, ethnicity, and perhaps most fundamentally, language.
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Meyer’s group of research scientists, postdocs and students in mathematics and political science has developed a new way to characterize the relationships among communities defined by different characteristics such as language or religion.
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May 21, 2:11 AM
ScoreCleaner Notes is an iPhone app that takes a simple melody and instantly turns it into written notation.
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Finally: instant sheet music! Very cool. I just hope I can hum or play an idea and it will do the rest...hehehe.
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Your brain's dominant side correlates with which ear you use while speaking on the phone. Researchers believe this finding will help doctors isolate the language centers in the brain before surgery.
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This is just a supposition. They are basing it on the fact of handedness, and ASSUMING it indicates brain side dominance. They are doing this because they are HOPING for a new way to test for brain dominance.
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This tech, called Inside-Out, combines biometric data and visual cues to pinpoint emotions. It is like lifelogging only with an added 'emotions' component.
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Signal Snowboards recently unveiled the world's first ever 3D printed snowboard design. It really shows that 3D printing can virtually create anything.
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Theoretical physics is about tweaking the knobs and dials and assumptions of the laws that govern the universe and then interpolating those laws back to examine how they affect our daily lives, or how they affect the universe that we observe, or even if they are consistent with each other.
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A team of Canadian and UK researchers has discovered what may be some of the oldest pockets of water on the planet – and they may contain life.
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You might not realise it, but statistics rule your life. Think about that for a minute. Because even if you claim you know nothing about maths, maths knows a lot about you.
Consider what you did even when you woke up this morning.
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