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Blind People Create Colorless Maps Of The World In Their Heads
Paul Gabias has never seen a table. He was born prematurely and went blind shortly thereafter, most likely because of overexposure to oxygen in his incubator.And yet, Gabias, 60, has no trouble...
View ArticleThe Key To Countering Burnout Is Telling Yourself That You're Not Burned Out
Scientists took mentally fatigued people and then showed them fake "test results" demonstrating they were not burned out and could keep going. Those given the fake results performed better on...
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Detroit Makes Young, Educated Workers Feel Like 'The Pretty Girl At The Party'
Detroit is a Mad Max-like urban wasteland full of scroungers looking to murder you if you don’t let them steal your car. That’s how the city will get portrayed by some media now that it just became the...
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People With An Offbeat Sense Of Fashion Get More Respect
A series of studies by the Harvard Business School has confirmed what Lady Gaga has known ever since she debuted her lightening bolt-covered eye and meat dress: people tend to like outlandish dressers....
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People Can Predict A Man's Intelligence Just By Looking At His Face
Can you tell whether someone is smart just be looking at them? It sounds preposterous, but new research from the Czech Republic suggests you can—if the subject in question is a man.The results of a...
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Here's Why Using Your Middle Initial Makes You Look Smarter
If you want people to think you're an intellectual, use your middle initial. "People's middle initials have a particular and powerful effect on how people are perceived by others," say psychologists...
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The 7 Weirdest Hallucinations That Have Actually Happened To People
The many documented cases of strange delusions and neurological syndromes can offer a window into how bizarre the brain can be.It may seem that hallucinations are random images that appear to some...
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Blue Really Is The Warmest Color
Our association of red with heat and blue with cold is so generally accepted it is imbued in our very language. Phrases as "red hot" and through the marking of weather charts and taps all make it clear...
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No one could describe the color 'blue' until modern times
This isn't another story about that dress, or at least, not really.It's about the way that humans see the world and how until we have a way to describe something, even something so fundamental as a...
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Many people see the world in a profoundly different way — and they may have...
When you hear the word love, does it taste like fresh ink and soft paper? When you see the number 4, does it burn a deep orange in your mind's eye? Does the letter E glow lime green above the page...
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We see 'less than a 10-trillionth' of the world around us, but new technology...
We see a pitiful percentage of what's happening around us at all times.It's not just that we're not looking. It's that our the parts of our body that we use to process the world around us — eyes, ears,...
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What only a quick glance at your face can tell people about you
The internet is filled with claims about how we form initial assessments of other people within the first ten minutes – or even the first ten seconds – of meeting them.Add the ever-expanding world of...
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When you should 'fake it 'til you make it' (and when you really shouldn't)
It's advice that's tossed around quite often: Fake it 'til you make it.On the surface, it sounds harmless. Put on a confident façade as you learn your way around — and eventually, you won't have to...
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City dwellers have a skewed idea of what makes people attractive
Ladies, when you think of the ideal man, what picture pops into your mind? Rippling muscles, thick hair and chiseled features? Is he strong, powerful and charming? And guys, when you think of the most...
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If you want to seem smarter, pick up the phone
If you're most comfortable reaching out and following up with potential employers via email, you're hardly alone. But according to new research, you're also not doing yourself any favors.One good...
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A psychologist explains 3 ways power messes with your head
Power inevitably changes people — sometimes for the better, sometimes not.It warms our hearts when we see CEOs share their fortunes with their employees and give back to the community in a big way....
View ArticleNo one could describe the color blue until modern times
There’s some evidence that we didn’t see the color “blue,” at least not in the way we see it today, until far later than other colors that are more common in nature. This is how researchers figured it...
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A career coach shares 14 ways to get people to take you more seriously
Are you having trouble with people not taking you seriously? There are lots of irrational reasons people may have for being dismissive — your age (too young or too old), race, gender, voice, height.It...
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A neuroscientist says your 'reality' could be entirely different from the...
On an episode of the "Art of Charm" podcast, neuroscientist David Eagleman invited host Jordan Harbinger to imagine a world in which everyone — except Harbinger — was born blind."So you had vision, and...
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Startups with unique names get more funding— at least in the beginning (YHOO)
As if having an awesome product isn't hard enough: A study published in the peer-reviewed academic journal Venture Capital has found that a startup's name can seriously affect how a company is...
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