Category: Money
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Stem cells therapies. Stem cells marketing stunts.
An injured knee can cost a pro football player millions of dollars, or even an entire career. MIT Technology Review reports that, in an effort to regrow cartilage and heal injured tissue quickly, hundreds of players are injecting bone marrow cells into their knees and hips. Evidence is weak that the procedure actually works and,…
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Scottish Independence: Buzz off William Wallace! We have... Cameron! Huh?!? [or "Why money cannot be the reason for independence"]
Scotland has voted against independence. (1) Welcome to the new age of Money. Where countries decide on their independence based on their economic prospects. Where countries decide on their non-independence based on their economic prospects. Where people do not have the sense of "nation" but have a strong sense of business. There was a time…
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"Philanthropists", science funding, love, care...
Last April, President Obama assembled some of the nation’s most august scientific dignitaries in the East Room of the White House. He spoke of using technological innovation “to grow our economy” and unveiled “the next great American project”: a $100 million initiative to probe the mysteries of the human brain. Along the way, he invoked…
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Measuring earnings. Measuring happiness (?)
It seems that people want to earn more, even though they cannot consume it or use it. (1) The scientists believe that this is because we can measure how much we earn, but we cannot measure how "happy" we are (or how much unhappy we become when we work more and more for things we…
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"Normal" people. Beating the psychopath test.
Can you cheat a psychopath test? (1) People do it every day. How many times have you done something while thinking you should do exactly the opposite? It is more common than you may think. (2) Do not be surprised if you found out that the only main difference between psychopaths in asylums and people…
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