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Good to Know: Big Losses Only Shortly Influence Happiness 0
- Mind & Brain
- September 16, 2013
People return to basic level of life satisfaction relatively soon. For all the people that just lost a loved one, those that got fired or the ones that are foreseeing such losses ahead of them: It is really not the end of your world. In fact, it is not even the end of your general
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Modern Effects Of Ancestor’s Diet 0
- Food & Culture, Good to Know, Health & Medicine
- July 22, 2013
Scientists of the University of Cambridge suggest that the food we eat may affect our genes. But to what extent are our eating habits tied to our genetic make-up?
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Before 1950 the Word ‘Stress’ Didn’t Exist 0
- Society
- June 24, 2013
The discovery of ‘stress’, by a man who meant to say ‘strain’. It’s hard to imagine people describing their regular days not using the word ‘stress’. We hear and read it everywhere nowadays. Yet it is a very young word, 63 years to be exact. Scientist Hans Selye ‘discovered’ the condition after wondering about it since medical school. There was a
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Early Human Diet Went Grassy 0
- Earth & Environment
- June 7, 2013
A dietary link to standing on two legs, big brains Modern apes eat mostly fruits and leaves in heavily wooded forests. Until recently, scientists believed that early human ancestors shared this diet. But a series of studies from the University of Utah found that our ancestors expanded their culinary tastes to grasses and grains, as
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Are Robots Good Elderly Companions?0
- Health & Medicine
- May 27, 2013
Does spending time with a non-human friend improve health? It is one of those techno-social questions that keeps coming back, especially as technology improves and the global population continues to age. If so many senior citizens are in need of assistance around the house as well as companionship to ensure good physical and mental health,
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Is Everyone Really Just Six Handshakes Away?0
- Society
- May 24, 2013
Let’s see if we know the whole world in six steps It’s something you’ve probably heard about on a birthday party somewhere. That we are actually connected with every single person in the world just via six people that know each other. So everyone is actually your friend’s friend’s friend’s friend’s friend’s friend. The idea
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