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How Music Heals Us, Even When It’s Sad

Leigh Riby Professor of Cognitive-Neuroscience, Department of Psychology Northumbria University, Newcastle When I hear Shania Twain’s You’re Still The One, it takes me back to when I was 15, playing on my Dad’s PC. I was tidying up the mess after he had tried to [take his

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How Often Do You Lie?

How Often Do You Lie?

Christian B. Miller Wake Forest University Prominent cases of purported lying continue to dominate the news cycle. Hunter Biden was charged with lying on a government form while purchasing a handgun. Republican Representative George Santos allegedly lied in many ways, including to donors through a third party in order to

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Studies on Masks and the Asymptomatic

Studies on Masks and the Asymptomatic

Transcriber B Transcribing missed information for the historical record since 2021. transcriberb.substack.com The Myth of the Asymptomatic Spreader Pam Popper, posted September 22, 2023 https://rumble.com/v3ja12a-the-myth-of-the-asymptomatic-spreader.html !function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]

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How Movies Use Music to Manipulate Your Memory

Libby Damjanovic Research Fellow of Psychology Lund University Around one in five American adults manage to squeeze in watching a movie on a daily basis. It’s a great way to escape the daily grind and unwind with loved ones. But, what can you actually remember about last night’s

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Brains Have a Remarkable Ability to Rewire Themselves Following Injury

Brains Have a Remarkable Ability to Rewire Themselves Following Injury

Hilary A. Diefenbach Speech Language Pathologist and Cognitive Rehabilitation Specialist Marcus Institute for Brain Health; Instructor University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus High-profile sports like football and soccer have brought greater attention in recent years to concussions – the mildest form of traumatic brain injury. Yet people often do not realize

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It’s Reassuring to Think Humans Are Evolution’s Ultimate Destination

It’s Reassuring to Think Humans Are Evolution’s Ultimate Destination

Matthew Wills Professor of Evolutionary Palaeobiology at the Milner Centre for Evolution University of Bath and Marcello Ruta Senior Lecturer, Life Sciences, University of Lincoln Depending upon how you do the counting, there are around 9 million species on Earth, from the simplest single-celled organisms to humans. It’s reassuring

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AI: The Prometheus of Our Time

AI: The Prometheus of Our Time

Randolph Grace University of Canterbury Future historians may well regard 2023 as a landmark in the advent of artificial intelligence (AI). But whether that future will prove utopian, apocalyptic or somewhere in between is anyone’s guess. In February, ChatGPT set the record as the fastest app to reach 100

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Are Ghosts Real? A Social Psychologist Examines The Evidence

Barry Markovsky University of South Carolina theconversation.com Is it possible for there to be ghosts? – Madelyn, age 11, Fort Lupton, Colorado Certainly, lots of people believe in ghosts – a spirit left behind after someone who was alive has died. In a 2021 poll of 1,000 American adults, 41%

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What Is Going On in Our Brains While We’re Sleeping?

Drew Dawson, Director, Appleton Institute Madeline Sprajcer, Lecturer in Psychology CQUniversity Australia Last night you probably slept for seven to eight hours. About one or two of these was likely in deep sleep, especially if you’re young or physically active. That’s because sleep changes with age and exercise

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No, You Are Not Imagining It

No, You Are Not Imagining It

A Midwestern Doctor midwesterndoctor.com In a recent series, I discussed the how unsafe and ineffective the SSRI antidepressants are and how the immense amount of money made from selling depression (and its indefinite “treatment”) to everyone caused effective cures treatments for depression to become almost completely forgotten. One of

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A Martian Crater Was Once a Lake

A Martian Crater Was Once a Lake

Humans remain endlessly fascinated by Mars. Still, notwithstanding Elon Musk’s grand dreams, our Red Planet neighbour currently remains a planet inhabited entirely by robots. Still, those robots are continuing to expand our knowledge of Mars. Including what were once its bodies of open water. Since landing on Mars in

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Bye Bye Baby

Bye Bye Baby

Michael Cook Michael Cook is editor of Mercator. mercatornet.com It’s hard to find a better case study of how experts exploit the media and democratic procedures to advance unethical agendas than the push in the United Kingdom to create “embryo banks” for scientific research. This might seem like

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The Science of Crazy Cat Ladies

The Science of Crazy Cat Ladies

So, is the ‘Crazy Cat Lady’ stereotype based in fact after all? A new review of the scientific literature suggests that it is. Which comes first, though, the cats or the crazy, is not so clear. A new review suggests that having a cat as a pet could potentially double

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Insects Can Help Solve Crimes

Kerri Duncan Kerri is an Adelaide-based freelance writer with a background in animal science and molecular biology. Always up for an investigative adventure, Kerri is addicted to exploring Earth’s wonders and finding as many waterfalls as possible. Her work in life sciences has deepened her appreciation of the natural

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NZDSOS Check the ‘Expert’ on the Platform

New Zealand Doctors Speaking Out with Science nzdsos.com Helen Petousis-Harris wrote a pandemic opinion piece It’s not the apocalypse, but yes, you should care, published on 20 February 2020. At this time, China – where around 30,000 deaths occur each day – had reported 2,121 Covid-related deaths across

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Scientist Who Helped Fauci Now Singing a Different Tune

Scientist Who Helped Fauci Now Singing a Different Tune

Jon Miltimore Jonathan Miltimore is the Editor at Large of FEE.org at the Foundation for Economic Education. fee.org In March 2020, Dr. Robert Kadlec addressed a House committee to confirm his role and responsibilities as the federal government’s top preparedness official coordinating the government’s COVID-19 response.

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