Category: Living
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Stress. A disease to fight. By doing NOTHING!
Chronic stress can wreak havoc on the body! (1) according to a study. And how could we get rid of stress? By doing some things, like yoga or raising a pet, according to another article. (2) But modern people do not understand that stress is a result of our believing that we must always "do…
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Is consciousness more important than intelligence? Work. Humans. Doing nothing.
Until today, high intelligence always went hand-in-hand with a developed consciousness. Only conscious beings could perform tasks that required a lot of intelligence, such as playing chess, driving cars, diagnosing diseases or writing articles. However, today we are developing new types of non-conscious intelligence that can perform these tasks far better than humans. This raises a…
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Go backwards. Surprise the Universe!
Driving to work becomes routine -- but could you drive the entire way in reverse gear? Humans, like many animals, are accustomed to seeing objects pass behind us as we go forward. Moving backwards feels unnatural. In a new study, scientists from The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) reveal that moving forward actually trains the brain…
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The Marshmallow Test.
Columbia University psychologist Walter Mischel made his scientific mark by tempting children with marshmallows. For nearly 50 years, Mischel has studied whether kids would eat, say, one marshmallow right away or wait 20 minutes to receive two marshmallows. Kids who waited for double the goodies grew up to do better in school, get better jobs,…
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HIV spreading. Isolation. Sympathy.
Almost like detectives retracing the steps of a killer in a whodunnit, researchers have pieced together how the virus that later became known as HIV grew from infecting a few hunter-gatherers in Cameroon to affecting 76 million people across the globe. Using historic blood samples to create a viral timeline, the team confirms that Kinshasa,…
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