If billionaires don’t feel guilty about walking away from their debts, should homeowners?
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Are married people happier than single people?
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Science gets one step closer to creating real SPIDER-MAN web shooters:
e findings are an advance toward a new generation of biobased adhesives and glues -- "green" glues that replace existing petroleum-based products for a range of uses. A report on the study was published in ACS' Biomacromolecules. Omer Choresh and colleagues note that much research has been done on spider web silk, which rivals steel in its strength. However, scientists know comparatively little about web glue, which coats the silk threads and is among the world's strongest biological glues. Past…
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What takes more years off your life than smoking or obesity?
ing poor: The average low-income person loses 8.2 years of perfect health, the average high school dropout loses 5.1 years, and the obese lose 4.2 years, according to researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health. Tobacco control has long been one of the most important public health policies, and rightly so; the average smoker loses 6.6 years of perfect health to their habit. But the nation's huge high school dropout rate and poverty rates are typically not seen…
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What makes medication 2-4x as effective? Adding a placebo:
a eurekalert.org: Researchers used the placebo effect to successfully treat psoriasis patients with one quarter to one half of their usual dose of a widely used steroid medication, according to an early study published online today in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine. Early results in human patients suggest that the new technique could improve treatment for several chronic diseases that involve mental state or the immune system, including asthma, multiple sclerosis and chronic pain. By designing treatment regimens that mix active…
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Time flies when you’re having fun – but the reverse is also true:
iversity students would come into their lab. Their cell phones would be turned off and their watches set aside, supposedly so they could better concentrate on a little task. They were told to read a text and underline all words with double letter combinations, like apple or mammal. Everyone was going to be doing this task for exactly 10 minutes, Sackett says. "But that's not what we told them," he says. "We told half of our participants that they were…
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Lap dancers’ earnings correlate with their menstrual cycle:
a shockmd.com Lap dancers with a normal cycle earned more during their 5 hours shift when in estrus. Estrus refers to the phase when the female is sexually receptive. Under regulation by gonadotropic hormones, ovarian follicles are maturing and estrogen secretions exert their biggest influence. They earned about US$335 per 5 hours shift, during the luteal phase they earned US$260, and US$185 per shift during menstruation. Participants using contraceptive pills showed no estrus peak earning. This research was started to test…
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Malcolm Gladwell talks about the “Perverse and Often Baffling” (Audio):
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