Category: Living
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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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Smile!
Groundbreaking research from the University of South Australia confirms that the act of smiling can trick your mind into being more positive, simply by moving your facial muscles. The research found that facial muscular activity not only alters the recognition of facial expressions but also body expressions, with both generating more positive emotions. Lead researcher…
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Aging…
Zachariah Reagh, assistant professor of psychological and brain sciences in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis found that brain activity in older adults isn't necessarily quieter when it comes to memory. "It's just different," he said. What he found out is that while a 20-year-old notes all details in a movie, an…
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Ignore… you!
Electric fish generate electric pulses to communicate with other fish and sense their surroundings. Some species broadcast shorter electric pulses, while others send out long ones. But all that zip-zapping in the water can get confusing. The fish need to filter out their own pulses so they can identify external messages and only respond to…
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Bored of success!? Embrace your failed self!
Modern societies celebrate success. Every day we look at news about successful football players, about successful managers or entrepreneurs, about successful parents, about successful models. Our feed in social media is flooded with success stories about how people wrote the next best book, how someone invented the next big thing, how someone wrote the next…
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