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    Swearing Can Reduce The Feeling Of Pain
    posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    Scientists have discovered that uttering swear words can help to lessen the feeling of physical pain.
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    Important: 60 Minutes: Eyewitness: How Accurate Is Visual Memory?
    posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    There have been 235 people exonerated by DNA in this country, and as 60 Minutes and correspondent Lesley Stahl first reported in March, now a stunning pattern has emerged: more than three quarters of them were sent to prison at least in part because an eyewitness pointed a finger -- an eyewitness we now know was wrong...
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    Meditation Switches On Disease Fighting Genes
    posted on Tuesday, July 14, 2009

    Researchers at the Harvard Medical School have found that deep relaxation seems to switch off 'disease causing' genes, while switching on genes that actively protect us from disorders such as high blood pressure to pain to infertility and even rheumatoid arthritis.
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    Beautiful People Are More Intelligent
    posted on Friday, July 10, 2009

    It appears that the "stereotype" that beautiful people are more intelligent appears to be true empirically, just as virtually all "stereotypes" are. But now the question is: Why? Why are beautiful people more intelligent?
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    Fit Body, Fit Mind? Your Workout Makes You Smarter
    posted on Friday, July 10, 2009

    How can you stay sharp into old age? It is not just a matter of winning the genetic lottery. What you do can make a difference.
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    The Next Hacking Frontier: Your Brain?
    posted on Friday, July 10, 2009

    Hackers who commandeer your computer are bad enough. Now scientists worry that someday, they’ll try to take over your brain.
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    Breastfeeding Babies Boosts Academic Achievements, GPA
    posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009

    Breastfeeding has long been known to be an important way mothers can help keep infants healthy. For example, according to the American College of Pediatrics, breastfeeding slashes the rate of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) during the first year of life and it also reduces the risk of type-2 diabetes, leukemia, lymphomas and asthma in older children.
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    Evolutionary Psychology Yields Fascinating & Unexpected Findings
    posted on Tuesday, July 07, 2009

    I sent him the following list of 15 findings, which I subsequently posted as a comment on his blog. This is not meant to be the definitive list of key EP findings, as there are endless other ones that could have been included herewith.  Rather, it is meant to capture the wide range of topics that are addressed by EPers.
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    A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory
    posted on Friday, July 03, 2009

    Imagine if you could look at something once and remember it forever. You would never have to ask for directions again. Now a group of scientists has isolated a protein that mega-boosts your ability to remember what you see.
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    Our Brains On Music (Watch NOVA Special Online)
    posted on Friday, July 03, 2009

    “Musical Minds,” the season premiere of “Nova” on PBS, is based on the neurologist Oliver Sacks’s most recent book, “Musicophilia," a collection of case studies of people whose brains have unusual relationships to music, cases in which, as Dr. Sacks puts it, “music gets them going to an extraordinary degree.”

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