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‘Love hormone’ improves attachment issues in people with autism
3 min read · From 2020 · Researchers at KU Leuven have discovered that administering oxytocin to adult men with autism makes them more open to close emotional bonds with others.
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National life tables, UK: 2016 to 2018
~11 min read · From 2019 · Life expectancy at birth in the UK in 2016 to 2018 was 79.3 years for males and 82.9 years for females; slight improvements were observed from 2015 to 2017 of 3.7 weeks and 4.2 weeks for males and…
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A New Anti-Aging Therapy Is Starting Its First Human Trial—and It Costs $1 Million
2 min read · From 2019 · The therapy will attempt to repair people's telomeres, the caps on the end of our chromosomes that shorten as people get older.
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TED Talks
Barry Schwartz: The paradox of choice
From 2019 · Psychologist Barry Schwartz takes aim at a central tenet of western societies: freedom of choice. In Schwartz's estimation, choice has made us not freer but more paralyzed, not happier but more…
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National Geographic
These are the top 20 scientific discoveries of the decade
~16 min read · From 2019 · The 2010s yielded many incredible finds and important milestones. Here are our favorites.
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Science Magazine
The End of History Illusion
From 2019 · We measured the personalities, values, and preferences of more than 19,000 people who ranged in age from 18 to 68 and asked them to report how much they had changed in the past decade and/or to…
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(1) LinkedIn Top Voices 2019: Job Search & Careers
From 2019 · Today we’re unveiling our 5th annual Top Voices list, highlighting professionals in a variety of industries and regions who are building communities and starting thoughtful conversations on LinkedIn through their articles, posts, videos and comments. These are the people you should be following to g
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Brain Pickings
Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Information Paradox: An Animated Explanation of the Greatest Unsolved Challenge to Our Understanding of Reality
1 min read · From 2019 · Reconciling the science of the very large with the science of the very small, with a sidewise possibility that everything we experience as reality is a holographic projection.
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PsyPost.org
Unpublished data from Stanley Milgram's experiments cast doubt on his claims about obedience
3 min read · From 2019 · An analysis of previously unpublished data raises serious questions about Stanley Milgram's landmark obedience experiments. The findings, which have been ...
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Phys.org
Complex quantum teleportation achieved for the first time
2 min read · From 2019 · Austrian and Chinese scientists have succeeded in teleporting three-dimensional quantum states for the first time. High-dimensional teleportation could play an important role in future quantum…
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From 2019 · Unexpected insights about people, media, and markets.
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