Category: Wisdom
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Creative… Dull… Wise…
A new study finds that creative experts may be better at imagining the future. (1) Look at the empty sky. There is nothing to predict. Except of the things we create. Look at the calm sea. There is nothing to remember. Except of the things you destroy. Look inside your self. Only dull people can…
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Reverse evolution
The study of evolution is revealing new complexities, showing how the traits most beneficial to the fitness of individual plants and animals are not always the ones we see in nature. Instead, new research by behavioral scientists shows that in certain cases evolution works in the opposite direction, reversing individual improvements to benefit related members…
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Control. Life. Death.
A recent study found out that older adults feel younger when they feel that they have more control over their daily lives, regardless of stress or health concerns. However, stress and health - not a sense of control - play a significant role in how old younger adults feel. (1) Old people try to control…
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Stop listening to the music…
How listening to music 'significantly impairs' creativity: The popular view that music enhances creativity has been challenged by researchers who say it has the oppositeeffect. Psychologists investigated the impact of background music on performance by presenting people with verbal insight problems that are believed to tap creativity. They found that background music 'significantly impaired' people's…
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The third eye… Light… Darkness…
Just like land plants, algae use sunlight as an energy source. Many green algae actively move in the water; they can approach the light or move away from it. For this they use special sensors (photoreceptors) with which they perceive light. The decades-long search for these light sensors led to a first success in 2002:…
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