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Swiss researchers from the University of Zürich were recently able to identify areas of the brain that are responsible for underlying social fairness and acceptance. They say that these neural hotspots are responsible for exerting control over selfish impulses and economic self-interest.
The reason why this i... |
12 October 2011 06:09 GMT |
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The human brain may have evolved to the point where making a choice – regardless of what that choice is – is a reward unto itself. Experts managed to tease out this trait in a new study conducted on volunteers in the lab. Making choices is a behavior directly related to the perception of control each and ... |
19 July 2011 10:04 GMT |
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A growing body of evidence is beginning to suggest that the satisfaction people feel at the workplace is directly linked to their longevity. The research does not analyze the way individuals feel about the tasks they have to do, but focuses on the relationships between co-workers.In other words, it's the develop... |
12 May 2011 03:54 GMT |
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Relationships in which women are abused, both physically and mentally, are oftentimes made this way by controlling, over-jealous boyfriends, says a new research. Experts say that these individuals dictate most of the things in the life of their couple partner.
Some of these things include how late women can stay ... |
5 April 2011 02:24 GMT |
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One of the biggest changes made to Dragon Age 2, one that is unavoidable even in the earliest moments of the game, is the modification made to the speed of all combat action, with all characters now mowing around about twice as quickly as they did in Origins, by my evaluation.
There seems to be no actual increase ... |
14 March 2011 17:51 GMT |
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Resizing, moving or arranging windows using custom patterns can be rather uncomfortable if you are using a trackpad, but also if you cannot approximate distances correctly. Optimal Layout is designed to give you full control over your windows using only keyboard commands.Any notebook user constantly finds itself in t... |
23 February 2011 13:41 GMT |
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Although there are various media players available for the Mac, using iTunes has its own perks: you can use an app that will allow you to quickly access the player's capabilities (a so called iTunes controller) without dealing with its interface. TunesArt is such an application that will not only allow you to ma... |
15 December 2010 11:51 GMT |
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Most parents love their children. This is an undeniable fact, right alongside the idea that adults want only the best for their children, But while these intentions may be commendable in theory, some parents, aptly called “helicopter parents,” tend to exaggerate in taking care of their kids, constantly ke... |
3 June 2010 10:46 GMT |
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As the pretext of fighting against terrorism is giving government officials more and more leeway for abuse, some are now even considering introducing mind-scanners in airport terminals as part of the security effort. Those behind the new machines say that they will help detect which individuals have plans to carry ex... |
29 January 2010 00:56 GMT |
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Small robots have been touted for a long time as the future of healthcare and medicine, with their amazingly low dimensions allowing them to sneak deep within the human body, far beyond the reach of conventional endoscopes and other probes. But one of the main obstacles that experts met in their endeavor to create su... |
25 November 2009 11:06 GMT |
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Scientists working with nanoparticles tout them as the way of the future in a large number of research fields, ranging from computing and chemistry to electronics and medicine. However, in order for the tiny structures to be of any good, they need to fulfill certain demands. Creating them after strict specifications ... |
25 September 2009 02:55 GMT |
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We all know that computers are great power consumers, because they have lots of components and we also use them for a long period of time without shutting them down. But there are times when we don’t use them for many minutes, and an important thing makes us leave the computer for hours. That’s the time w... |
29 June 2009 12:41 GMT |
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Strategy Analytics has released the Strategy Analytics Wireless Device Lab Report, which basically revolves around the idea that devices using touchscreens and accelerometers (like Apple's iPhone and iPod touch) provide an enhanced experience, as far as mobile gamers go. Titled “Innovative Built-In Sensors... |
30 April 2009 08:53 GMT |
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The gaming industry has fallen into some sort of cliche, as almost all of the releases put the player into the shoes of a good character that has to battle with the forces of evil and ultimately save their own home town, country or world.Codemasters took that recipe and turned it 180 degrees, as it has placed the pla... |
6 April 2009 02:23 GMT |
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RFID chips, in addition to being truly useful in stores, for inventories and the likes, are highly-criticized by human rights groups, because they say that, once inserted in a human being, they can pass on their location, as well as a myriad of personal information, including banking accounts, purchasing habits and t... |
3 February 2009 07:09 GMT |
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When people lack control and outcome predicting possibilities, they tend to think there's something wrong with reality, that there are incomprehensible forces at work, and their frustration and previous experiences twine into unnatural explanations and behaviors.There's no better explanation to how our min... |
3 October 2008 07:14 GMT |
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Since almost all modern life's entertainment is based on electrical appliances that use remote controls, new technology developments could soon mean the transition to an even easier form of remote controlling - using your own hands.The technology for hand remote controlling is already in place and has been ... |
1 October 2008 10:06 GMT |
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Is there anything that iPhone can't do? I swear to God it's becoming the perfect gadget to own by the passing of each day. How would you like to control your computer from the comfort of your couch/bed using it? With Touchpad, you'll be able to perform tasks such as play, pause, rewind, fast forward, s... |
22 February 2008 09:39 GMT |
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A new method has been known to work in improving data security; it's based on the fact that information may leak through e-mails when those are being sent to other people, while they are somehow intercepted by hackers. As Forbes informs us, more and more companies use virtual surveillance methods to see and cont... |
20 August 2007 11:25 GMT |
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Microsoft keeps ruining companies by implementing features and applications directly into its own operating systems. Until the release of Vista, anyone in search of a solution to prevent the inappropriate usage of the computer by children was forced to purchase especially designed software. This kind of software allo... |
22 May 2007 15:21 GMT |
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