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39.jpgTwo pelicans blown to Rhode Island by the winds of Hurricane Sandy will be flown in a private plane back to their natural habitat in Florida.

Faked research is endemic in China.

Why is it so hard to give good directions?

Neurophysiologically, humans are sight dominant. Thirty to forty percent of our cerebral cortex is devoted to vision, as compared to 8 percent for touch or just 3 percent for hearing.

How online video stream quality affects viewer behavior.

New study examines how health affects happiness.

Study 1 suggests that the more people value happiness, the lonelier they feel on a daily basis.

Meanings of words can be hard to locate when they are on the tip of your tongue, let alone in the brain. Now, for the first time, patterns of brain activity have been matched with the meanings of specific words.

 “Do you think that humans are still evolving?” Approximately 80% of the audience answered “no.” Recent findings, however, show otherwise.

“These results show that the humans can perform complex, rule-based operations unconsciously, contrary to existing models of consciousness and the unconscious,” say the researchers.

If you’re 27 or younger, you’ve never experienced a colder-than-average month. [Thanks Glenn]

Unlike the dramatic losses reported in the Arctic, the Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change.

A number of times over the past one billion years, the Earth’s surface has “wandered” relative to its rotational axis – before returning to its original position.

In this study, a mail survey was conducted in order to examine the effects of transparent envelopes (those allowing visualization of contents) on response rate and speed.

Parodists’ fate is usually determined by the subjective judgment of courts, whose treatment of parody often seems to turn on instinct rather than trademark principles.

10 books that are better than ‘The Art of War.’

Interview with a fake Damien Hirst.

The Robot Artist.

What are the best new products that people don’t know about?

How does striped toothpaste retain its stripes after being bottled and squeezed?

Trans Antarctic Expedition.

Ancient Echo. [more]





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