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We've all seen – and admired – Bollywood productions for the complexity of their dance routines, but chances are not many of us caught one of them live, on board an airplane. On January 17, this is precisely what happened for passengers on board a Finnair flight from Helsinki to New Delhi.All the fli... |
28 January 2012
06:08 GMT |
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Graphic narratives, or comics, are currently the focus of a new type of scientific study, one that aims to extract entire cultural trends out of the way comic strips are put together. The subjects they deal with are also of great interest to scientists. One of the most interesting things for researchers is observing ... |
19 December 2011
06:13 GMT |
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A new study provides evidence of what anthropologists have been suspecting for a long time, and namely the fact that orangutans have the ability to learn socially. Furthermore, the species is capable of passing down this information from one generation to the next.
Most great apes exhibit signs of culture, research... |
25 October 2011
18:01 GMT |
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A group of investigators led by experts at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) says that their latest study on the influence of culture on human behavior revealed a worrying aspect – the way our culture is set up is poised to instill a little bit of racism and discrimination in everyone of us.
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3 October 2011
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In an interesting new research, experts were able to confirm the existence of numerous similarities between the cultural and social behaviors of chimpanzees and dolphins, despite the obvious, marked differences that exist between the two species. It would appear that these similarities developed in spite of the fact ... |
6 July 2011
09:25 GMT |
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A group of Spanish investigators is investigating the effects that newly-adopted technologies are having on our culture, especially in its narrative and writing forms. Thus far, the results are very interesting. The research team is headed by professor Antonio Rodriguez de las Heras, who is based at the Universidad C... |
18 October 2010
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Civilization V is the new turn based strategy game from Jon Shafer, Sid Meier and the team at Firaxis, allowing players to take control of a nation as a mythical leader and lead them to glory in search of victory via domination, science, social policies or democratic world vote.Napoleon is a funny little guy. Student... |
4 October 2010
19:01 GMT |
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The way that people think about work is well-anchored in their culture, a new article in Culture and Psychology in Perspectives on Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science explains.That is why one of the most important aspects of successfully running a multinational company is to ... |
12 August 2010
09:58 GMT |
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His works have been seen and admired by millions, for Nathan Sawaya is a 36-year-old former attorney who, one day, decided he wanted to render emotion and play with the human form with Lego bricks. He’s sold countless such sculptures and has gotten plenty attention from the media, but it’s just now that S... |
22 March 2010
15:21 GMT |
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In a new investigation of vervet monkeys, scientists have discovered that the animals appear to prefer the female teachers in their group, when it comes to selecting role models. In carefully-designed lab experiments, these monkeys were observed as learning a new trick only when it was first demonstrated by a female ... |
17 March 2010
05:45 GMT |
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A group of researchers has recently released a report suggesting that our genetic makeup may be significantly influenced by social factors. Among these influences, the researchers include things such as where we live and spend our time, as well as what we eat, drink and do in our spare time. The work was conducted by... |
19 January 2010
09:25 GMT |
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Scientists at the University of California in Davis (UCD) have recently just finished drawing conclusions from their latest study, which dealt with explaining the sources of socially learned behavior, as well as self-sacrifice among strangers. In their investigation, the experts determined that people such as firemen... |
13 October 2009
03:59 GMT |
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All of you have at least one friend who is crazy about music. They are not one of those people caught up in a single band, or music style, but rather the persons you and your friends go to when you need to know the name of a certain song or band you can't remember. You know that, even if you sing a few notes fro... |
19 September 2009
06:58 GMT |
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The world knows Paris Hilton, the heiress, the socialite extraordinaire and showbiz personality, the fashion designer, singer and actress, rather for her wild lifestyle than for her wisdom. However, experts compiling the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations have included one from her as well in the updated version that go... |
10 September 2009
06:04 GMT |
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There are so many self-help books out there that, were one to choose only a handful of the lot for some guidance and advice, one would have serious problems choosing. Judging from the message behind all of them, positive thinking is the key to success: a better social and professional position, more money, happiness,... |
8 September 2009
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Just because we think we can, or because we want to bad enough doesn’t mean we will actually get the thing we desire the most at one given moment. Yet, this is precisely what self-books are telling us every day, offering us quick and failure-proof methods of achieving whatever goal we have in mind, be it losing... |
17 August 2009
16:31 GMT |
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Current efforts of saving the world's whales may be disregarding one of the most important aspects of the cetaceans' behavior, a new study seems to prove. Culture is an essential factor in understanding the way these large animals act, a growing idea in the international scientific community says. As an exa... |
25 June 2009
04:23 GMT |
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The links that the human brain makes are, at times, very odd, and researchers have spent vast amounts of time studying them. One such class of interactions is that which occurs between a person's emotion and their identity. In a new survey, investigators from a consortium of universities and other research insti... |
15 April 2009
04:07 GMT |
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Until 10,000 years ago, when humankind invented agriculture, evolution took our ancestors on an uninterrupted journey from primates to two-legged creatures. Once people started cultivating the land, and the hunter-gatherer society disappeared, the natural course of evolution was disrupted, with yet-undetermined conse... |
13 March 2009
11:49 GMT |
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The number of dementia cases in developing countries could be twice the one previously estimated, says a study involving about 15,000 participants, which might be related to the lack of standard techniques for diagnosing dementia in these particular areas. The findings come in contradiction with similar studies that ... |
28 July 2008
05:16 GMT |
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For adapting to the environment, organisms have two choices: to change their physiology or to change their behavior, through genetic changes or learning; it is a trade between mutation and innovation. Innovation can be cultural if it propagates to other individuals or groups, maintains along the generations, beyond t... |
18 February 2008
10:56 GMT |
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Chicas latinas son realmente calientes. In the Latino music, that's only sensuality and passion. How does this translate in the sex life of these women? A new study published in the Journal of Adolescent Health and carried on at the University of Chicago Medical Center shows that the sense of personal control ov... |
17 January 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Being East Asian is more than the almond eye, yellowish skin, sushi, rice, soy sauce and the weird glyphs. The brain works differently! A new MIT research published in "Psychological Science" shows how the Westerners and the East Asian people use their brains differently when facing the same visual perceptual issue.I... |
14 January 2008
04:19 GMT |
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The question was "So what really is different now?" and it was asked to Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, by Steve Lohr from the NYTimes. The feeling that there's an acceleration in the pace of life and in lifestyle as a whole is circling everyone I've talked to on the matter, and it seems that o... |
18 December 2007
13:31 GMT |
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They may have lived during the "New Stone Age" (Neolithic), but according to European figurines which are 7,500 years old, women liked to look sexy even back then. Recent digging at the site of a settlement of Vinca culture, Europe's biggest known Neolithic civilization, on Plocnik (southern Serbia), uncovered a... |
13 November 2007
06:12 GMT |
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"The enormous market swarmed of people; some buying, some selling...Amongst us were soldiers which had traveled in many parts of the world, from Constantinople to Italy and Rome, yet they said they had never seen a market of such proportions so harmonious and balanced, harboring so much people", wrote Bernal Diaz del... |
3 November 2007
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The skeletons of a "Romeo and Juliet" couple found last February near Verona, Italy, could be pretty young compared to their newly found Turkish counterparts, 3,000 years older. The two ancient skeletons encountered in each other's arms in a grave in Turkey seem to be the subject of the oldest love story to last... |
19 October 2007
05:37 GMT |
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The world "culture" has been used for centuries to differentiate people from animals. That's why many anthropologists, psychologists and philosophers refuse to apply this concept for the monkeys living in the cool mountains of Japan. Still, many researchers show behavioral and learning patterns to name these ani... |
19 July 2007
14:06 GMT |
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This is one of the most mysterious cultures of the New World. The obscure native culture named Gallina occupied a small zone of northwestern New Mexico around A.D. 1100 but by 1275 they were all gone. Now, seven Gallina skeletons (five adults, one child and one infant), appearing to have been victims of a brutal mass... |
16 July 2007
02:58 GMT |
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You think that only Westerners can steal Daoist sexual practices, martial arts, silk, gunpowder and paper, don't you?Chimpanzees too have been found to easily take customs and culture from one population to another, just like the humans. This could explain the capabilities of the last common ancestor of humans a... |
9 June 2007
04:18 GMT |
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During 4 million years of evolution, people just gathered, hunted and fished what nature offered, living just like another intelligent mammal. But about 12,000 years ago, with the Neolithic ("new stone") era, people started to be producers, creating voluntarily their subsistence means and breaking their dependence on... |
24 May 2007
17:06 GMT |
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Archaeologists have discovered in the Pacific islands of Vanuatu (New Hebrides) the region's oldest cemetery, 3,000 year old, filled with a huge amount of headless bodies.The strange skeletons belong to the Lapita people, the earliest known sailors in the Pacific Islands. Their DNA could explain how many remote... |
16 March 2007
05:22 GMT |
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