Theory of happiness
Last week, the head of the country's central bank floated the idea of dumping the greenback as the world's reserve currency, replacing it with an international currency. Thousands of...
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My name's Sophie Scott, and I'm a professor of Cognitive Neuroscience here at the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience at UCL, and I'm a Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow. My...
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"Human Neurotransmitters in Plants" A strange letter was recently published in the Journal of Neuropsychiatric and Clinical Neuroscience, suggesting fruit as a treatment for...
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(Music) How many times can you fold a piece of paper? Assume that one had a piece of paper that was very fine, like the kind they typically use to print the Bible. In reality, it seems like a piece of...
Now human beings are really good at seeing the patterns of a face. We see it in Mars. We'll see it in toast. Now why is this? Well we can look to our evolutionary past and gain some insight....
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And another topic discussed at the meeting in the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae was the government's ambitious plan to turn Korea into a northeast Asian oil trading hub. Experts,...
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For centuries the rainbow has been an object of wonder for scientists and mathematicians. It's taken more than 2,000 years to discover many of its secrets. You may be quite familiar with its...
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There's no consensus to this day on what the precise nature of knowledge is; but I guess that the nearest we have to a generally accepted view is actually close to what you have just said:...
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