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Since the Ancient Greeks, and possibly even before, there has been an ongoing debate as to which effects are the most obvious in a human being. Some argue that nurture, the way each person is brought up, and the society they grow in, is the most determining aspect, whereas others believe that all the basic traits som... |
17 February 2010
06:58 GMT |
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A few minutes ago, Canonical uploaded the default wallpaper(s) and artwork for the upcoming Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) operating system. The default theme is still Human but the Window Border has a different color and the default icons are Humanity. The big surprise is that there are now 17 new wallpapers, except tha... |
25 September 2009
07:53 GMT |
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Blausen Inc. has released a new version of its Blausen Human Atlas iPhone app with increased medical content and enhanced functionality, according to a report. The developer and owner of the world’s largest library of 3D medical animations partnered up with CodeMorphic (iPhone developer) to create the app. Vers... |
12 August 2009
08:56 GMT |
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The exponential progress of technology helps specialists design and build ever more advanced machines expected to fully replace humans soon. They already look quite similar to us, or are able to chat, although they are much stronger, play musical instruments better, beat humans at chess, ride monocycles, drive cars, ... |
20 November 2008
05:39 GMT |
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A new version of a musical robot that plays the flute perfectly could soon turn out to be a worthy competitor to human musicians. Besides the fact that it makes no mistakes, the latest technology allowed its developers from the Waseda University in Japan to equip it with cameras that act as eyes, ensuring a dynamic c... |
6 November 2008
08:07 GMT |
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As car makers and dealers are yearning to find new approaches and features that would make their cars sell better, a new study tests how the pareidolia levels in people affect whether they like a car or not.Pareidolia refers to people's ability of finding human traits or even whole faces in objects that usu... |
16 October 2008
10:26 GMT |
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A new research advises us not to trust the legend of our multitasking, since we're not at all able to do more things at the same time consciously.The same study stresses on the emergence of an adjacent unique ability that propelled us to an evolutionary edge - the humans' capacity of toggling their att... |
3 October 2008
08:31 GMT |
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A new highly advanced walking robot dubbed Flame was developed recently by researcher Daan Hobbelen from TU Delft as part of his PhD research focused on revealing the way people walk. For his research Hobbelen will receive his PhD next week, on May 30. Hobbelen's findings could provide a valuable insight into ne... |
23 May 2008
10:40 GMT |
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Geometry has changed our family tree. A new computer analysis published in the journal Nature re-drew evolutionary links between extinct humans, apemen and us. The team led by Dr Rolando González-José of the Centro Nacional Patagónico-CONICET, Puerto Madryn, Argentina employed 4 geometric measurements from human and ape fos... |
15 May 2008
03:24 GMT |
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When Hollywood stars or politicians have extramarital affairs, the whole world rumbles. However, were we to look into human biology, anthropology and sociology, we would see that the monogamous human comes off as a very weird notion. Monogamy was invented for a sense of order and as to make a profitable investment, n... |
15 May 2008
02:46 GMT |
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Love is what makes you a better person. Nevertheless, sharing your life with another person can turn into a permanent struggle with your fears and most rigid beliefs, all of which impede you to love. When in a marriage or a relationship, we have to open up something found deep inside of us. Without being aware of it,... |
14 May 2008
16:51 GMT |
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We are living in a civilization based on oil. It is an issue that makes us extremely vulnerable. That's because of the global "Peak Oil." The oil production follows a bell curve. Its peak is the moment when oil has been 50% depleted. After the peak, oil production decreases while its price starts to go up.Many s... |
10 May 2008
06:48 GMT |
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Hard to define, but easy to recognize, this attitude has always been a subject of dispute. Job authority, family authority or couple authority, this is the kind of reality we face daily. Some are advantaged by it, while others come to see their life turned into a living hell because of it. If you have this character ... |
9 May 2008
09:45 GMT |
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It is becoming increasingly clear now that people inhabited Americas earlier than what has been previously believed. A study published in April, based on human coprolites (fossilized feces) found in a cave in Oregon, came up with a date for the remains, of about 14,300 years, which is with more than 1,000 years earli... |
9 May 2008
02:50 GMT |
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You may meet a person who looks right (proper clothing, skillfulness, intelligent look and stateliness), but when he/she starts to talk, he/she pisses you off really bad. Sometimes, you may be just like that, saying improper things. Self-centeredness refers to the habit of turning things and situations so that you ar... |
8 May 2008
11:20 GMT |
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The face is one of the few things you cannot, under any circumstance, neglect in a new possible mate. For humans, the face is an important source of mating and social information. By casting only one glance, you can see if a face is attractive or not. Many studies have focused on issues like symmetry and the differen... |
7 May 2008
14:06 GMT |
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We are all so wise... We find it very easy to catalogue people and to find a cause behind any deed a person makes. When we see a shy, unsure person, we label him/her as suffering from a complex. However, we do not say the same about an authoritative person, even if the same holds true for that person as well, the onl... |
6 May 2008
08:59 GMT |
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The macho, women's idol, is standing all alone and facing whatever problems might come his way - this is the classic image of the heroic male. But what's the reality behind the macho cult, so widespread amongst Mexican-Americans? A new research published in the Journal of Counseling Psychology attempts to c... |
30 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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We are all in the search of happiness, but the failure of finding it can cause us all kinds of frustrations and psychological issues. First of all, it is tricky to even define happiness: is it having what you want or wanting what you have? A new research published in the Psychological Science tested this. The results... |
29 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Over 6.6 billion people inhabit the planet today. With all that, 70,000 years ago, no more than 2,000 people existed, as revealed by a new research carried out at Stanford University and published in the American Journal of Human Genetics. 70,000 years ago, our species was represented only by a small isolated African... |
29 April 2008
04:42 GMT |
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The tombs of ancient Native Americans in the modern southwestern US have been found to contain hundreds of dog remains. A new study, recently presented at the annual meeting of the Society for American Archeology in Vancouver, Canada, and representing the first results of an investigation on dog burial places encount... |
29 April 2008
02:41 GMT |
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The world's official oldest person is 115 years and 4 days old. Edna Parker lives in a retirement community in Shelbyville, Indiana, and was born on April 20, 1893. Parker was born on the same day as silent movie star Harold Lloyd. In the same retirement center also lives Sandy Allen, the tallest woman in the wo... |
24 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Always control your carriage. This means be more attentive not only to the garments that, besides obeying the latest fashion trends, must also put you to advantage by emphasizing your particularities and "best side", thus personalize you. Do not forget that a dress, no matter how expensive or posh it is, loses some o... |
24 April 2008
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You may think you're a naturally born lie detector, but in fact you're just checking people for stereotype behavior that can easily deceive you. A new research carried out by a team led by Dr. Stephen Porter's Forensic Psychology Lab at the Dalhousie University and published in the Psychological Scienc... |
23 April 2008
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It seems that a big brain does not mean only higher intelligence, but also a longer life, according to a new research published in the Journal of Human Evolution. The largest brain of a terrestrial animal is that of the elephant, weighing 10.5 pounds (4.78 kg). And the elephants are known to live up to 60 and more. S... |
22 April 2008
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1. The largest brain belongs to the sperm whale: 7 kg (17.5 pounds). The blue whale, the largest animal on the planet, being twice longer and thrice heavier, has a brain weighing 5 kg (12.5 pounds). 2. Human brain has an average weight of 2.7 pounds (1.2 kg), variations between 1.1 and 1.4 kg being considered normal.... |
21 April 2008
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Our closest living relatives are chimpanzees and bonobos. But their genomes, besides being a proof of relatedness to us, also display anomalies, as revealed by a new research published in the journal "PLos Genetics." These weird DNA areas may explain one of the most mysterious intervals in our own evolution: 5.4 mill... |
18 April 2008
03:19 GMT |
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Bipedalism is a term coming from "walking on two feet" in Latin. Humans are practically the only bipedal mammals. Kangaroos and many rodent species hop on two feet but they cannot walk. When walking, they do it on all four. Other species, like apes, monkeys and bears, may attempt walking on two feet, but they do it o... |
17 April 2008
08:53 GMT |
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The last Neanderthals may have gone extinct in their last stronghold in Gibraltar 24,000 years ago, but we still can hear their voice. At least, a computer made a variant of it, in an attempt of a team led by Robert McCarthy, an anthropologist at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, as signaled by New Scientist... |
17 April 2008
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Retailers are saying that Quake Wars is set to launch for the Xbox 360 and the PlayStation 3 on May 30. Considering the time that passed since the PC release and the talk about new features from Activision, the date seems about right to us.Enemy Territory: Quake Wars is a multiplayer, team-based, objective-driven fir... |
16 April 2008
19:11 GMT |
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Of course, when Hollywood stars or politicians have extramarital affairs, the whole world rumbles. But if we peek into human biology, anthropology and sociology, the monogamous human appears as a very weird notion. We are mammals, and if we look to the mammalian world, just 3 to 5% of the about 5,000 species of mamma... |
12 April 2008
06:00 GMT |
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For humans, writing meant a huge technological and cultural revolution. Information was at last to be recorded in a more secure way than via human memory. Writing and reading seem natural for us, but they had to be invented and perfected. In 1996, on the left bank of the Euphrates River, 100 km (60 mi) of Aleppo (Syr... |
5 April 2008
06:40 GMT |
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Paranoia is far more spread in the general population than generally admitted. Although appearance doesn't show it, some people are paranoid, as revealed by a research published in the "British Journal of Psychiatry." In our daily contact with other persons, we interpret facial and body cues to assess how friend... |
4 April 2008
03:38 GMT |
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All the anthropologic manuals talk about the Clovis people as the first Native Americans. But South American fossils show that the continent was already inhabited by Asian Blacks (the type of the Papuans and Australian Aborigines) by the time Clovis entered North America. And a new research published in the journal "... |
4 April 2008
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We want to have a public image, hiding what's inside our mind. A new research made by a team at the USC-Caltech Center for the Study of Law and Politics and to be published in "Political Research Quarterly" shows that men are less tolerant than women, and the most likely victims of prejudice are poorly educated ... |
3 April 2008
14:06 GMT |
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In bursts, with the mouth wide open, like a fool, like a hunchback, like a whale. In puffs, in explosions, stifling, snorting, rattling, with tears... It is like a tide, laugh is irresistible. The human laugh is executed by muscle designed for it. We may burst with all our bodies, but the face has 12 specialized musc... |
3 April 2008
11:07 GMT |
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We do not know when genetics will insert cow genes in the breasts of the women, the dream of many men, but the first hybrid cow-human embryos and stem cells have already been obtained by British researchers led by Dr. Lyle Armstrong of Newcastle University. The research was presented to Israel's parliament last ... |
3 April 2008
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Many terrestrial and aquatic species can hear lower and higher frequencies than those detected by humans (infrasound, respectively ultrasounds). Frequency is crucial in defining a sound. Now, an Israeli team sustained by UCLA researchers has showed for the first time, in a research published in the journal "Nature," ... |
2 April 2008
03:32 GMT |
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Humans have been preoccupied to store and process information for a very long time. It allows humans to use the experience of the past generations and that of the others. The memory of each person defines him/her. Losing memory is like losing past and future, living in a continual present. Brain researches show that... |
29 March 2008
07:48 GMT |
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Millions of years ago, we started our evolution in Africa. Then, at a given moment, we began to colonize the rest of the world. When did humans enter Europe for the first time? In June 2007, archaeologists discovered the oldest European human fossils in the Sima del Elefante Cave, 60-ft (18 m) long, at the Sierra Ata... |
27 March 2008
03:59 GMT |
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Paleolithic is the period that makes most of our history. It started with the oldest known stone tools, 2.6 Ma ago and lasted until 10,000 years ago. It emerged with Homo habilis and reached its peak with our species, Homo sapiens, which appeared about 200,000 years ago. It is the period when humans were just hunters... |
24 March 2008
17:11 GMT |
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Any friendly gesture from a woman turns a man into a horny beast. And this is not an issue of movies: a new research to be published in the journal "Psychological Science" shows that this is the rule in daily life. Men were found not to be able to make the slightest difference between a friendly greeting, like the s... |
24 March 2008
14:56 GMT |
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You may see people who are in trouble, and the emotions (if you are not a psychopath) triggered by that are the same in all of us. But whether that makes you intervene or not for helping a person in need is another issue. A new research made by psychologist Lidewij Niezink, from the University of Groningen, Netherlan... |
24 March 2008
06:27 GMT |
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Walking on two feet is one of the main traits of the human being. A new study published in the journal "Nature" shows that the six-million-year-old Kenyan hominin could have been the first species able to walk bipedally, based on bone anatomy."This provides really solid evidence that these fossils actually belong to ... |
21 March 2008
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During the Ice Age, the North Sea was just a grassy plain dwelt by mammoths, deer and ... humans. Now, the Dutch Jan Meulmeester, an amateur archaeologist, has discovered a unique collection of Stone Age hand axes made of material coming from the bottom of the North Sea. 28 axes, possibly up to 100,000 years old, wer... |
18 March 2008
05:04 GMT |
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Our closest evolutionary relative was the Neanderthal man (Homo neanderthalensis). But when did we share a common ancestor? A new research published in the journal "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows that gradual changes in human skull size and shape would indicate that, 300,000 to 400,000 years a... |
18 March 2008
03:47 GMT |
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It seems so human, still laugh is not specific to humans. Monkeys, rats and dogs have already been found to enjoy a good "laugh". But it is hard to penetrate into their mind to see what a rat or dog could think when "laughing". Perhaps they think we, humans, are ugly... Anyway, laughing seems to be connected to a hi... |
17 March 2008
09:34 GMT |
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You surely have heard about the Tasmanian devil. You understand why devil, but what do you know about the island of Tasmania?It is a land located between 40o 38' and 43o 39' S, off southeastern Australia, being slightly larger than the island of Ireland (with a similar clime, too). The wet cool temperate cl... |
14 March 2008
17:46 GMT |
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Third degree contact. Three words which can probably make a lot of people laugh. But this is no laughing matter; just look around you, we're not living in an isolated area, we're living in a universe, billions of light years across, with billions of galaxies and stars and most likely intelligent life as wel... |
14 March 2008
05:12 GMT |
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A healthy nation laughs. This benefits psychological health and decreases pain. For example, for a Brit, there's nothing more funny than a gross insult or what many in other parts of the world consider wholly inappropriate: war, sex, race, death. On the other hand, for others, watching "Friends" requires a deep ... |
13 March 2008
06:46 GMT |
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