Category: Feelings
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Taking risks…
While acetaminophen is helping you deal with your headache, it may also be making you more willing to take risks, a new study suggests. People who took acetaminophen rated activities like 'bungee jumping off a tall bridge and ''speaking your mind about an unpopular issue in a meeting at work' as less risky than people…
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Better information. Worst decisions.
Making everyday decisions seems easy enough. But new research from Stevens Institute of Technology suggests that too much knowledge can lead people to make worse decisions, pointing to a critical gap in our understanding of how new information interacts with prior knowledge and beliefs. Kleinberg and her team, found that when the problem was about…
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Non-water. Inside the dead forest.
Led by Professors Raffaele Mezzenga and Ehud Landau, a group of physicists and chemists from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich have identified an unusual way to prevent water from forming ice crystals, so even at extreme sub-zero temperatures it retains the amorphous characteristics of a liquid. In a first step, the researchers designed and…
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Boosting creativity.
What is creativity, and can it be enhanced - safely - in a person who needs a boost of imagination? Georgetown experts debate the growing use of electrical devices that stimulate brain tissue and conclude there is potential value in the technique. However, use of these machines also raises neuro-ethical, legal, and social issues that…
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Do you feel judged? Do you feel bad? Do you like plastic flowers?
Modern times can be really stressful. Many times you find yourself under criticism. A lot of times things go the wrong way. And at that points in time, you start judging yourself. Feeling useless. Because someone else is. Feeling inadequate. Because someone else is. Feeling responsible. Because someone else is not. Do not feel this…
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