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Surfing the Net Stops Your Brain from Aging - Scientists Find

EVER felt sligthly guilty about the amount of time you spend in front of your PC or laptop surfing the net? Worried that you may have symptoms of internet addiction? The good news released today is...

created by Christina 123 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Computers figuring out what words mean

They might be able to build an AI that can surf the Web for me, but no machine can replace me until it learns to pay taxes, complain, gossip and contribute to economic growth by shopping. ""We have taught the computer virtually all the meanings of words and phrases in the...

created by Erik Larson | 3 years ago
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Artichoke omelette - Frittata di carciofi (Tuscany)

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Advances in cooking 200,000 years ago made humans smart, researchers say

Humans' evolution into the smarty pantses of the animal world may have resulted from advances in cooking 200,000 years ago, researchers say, a development that made a whole lot of brain food available to us. The...

created by Rob Peters | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Believing Can Be Seeing: The Brain and The Eye

Are you watching closely? A University College London study is quantifying what magicians have relied on for ages: the eye, to a certain extent, sees what the brain expects it to see. Objects are perceived based...

created by Jordan Yerman | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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Alex, the Celebrity Parrot of More Than 100 Words, Dies--& Gets NY Times Obit

Alex, the famous African Grey Parrot, died at age 31. His website notes that he was the focal point of Dr. Irene Pepperberg', (Ph.D.) ground-breaking study on cognition and communication research.He was intellectually at the level of a five-year-old child, the research...

created by PEP | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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"Mind Reading" Babies Discovered - Study

Never mind Babies with Super-Strength, mind reading babies have been discovered in Italy - and they are likely all around the world....but what IS mind reading (there is always a catch, isn't there)? Might...

created by ScienceDave | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Cerebral Palsy - Symptoms, Causes, Treatments

"Cerebral palsy or CP is the most common childhood physical disability. It is a permanent physical condition that affects movement. A new international consensus definition has been proposed "Cerebral palsy (CP) describes a group of disorders of the development of movement...