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
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You can be fooled. But your hand surely cannot be. A new study published in the journal "Psychological Science" shows that our brain works with the images in two different pathways. The team led by psychologist Tzvi Ganel, at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, tested the subjects with the "Ponzo" illusion, that make... |
11 March 2008
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1. When you greet somebody, shaking his hand, accompany the greeting with a smile, which must not compete Mona Lisa's. It must be just natural, spontaneous, outspoken, devoid of artificiality. 2. Do not stretch the hand first to a woman, an elder person, a superior or a boss. The man should not be the first to s... |
10 March 2008
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The brain of a gay man is clearly different from a straight man's; no wonder that even their bodies function differently. A new Canadian research published in the journal Neuropsychology and made on gay men comes with new aspects on the link between sexual orientation and right or left-handedness. Homosexuals of... |
27 November 2007
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You would not want to play baseball against him. His hand covers half of the stadium...But Liu Hua, the 24-year-old man from Jiangsu (eastern China) with the largest hand in the world, does not pursue a baseball career. Liu suffers from macrodactylya ("large fingers"), a congenital defect in which toes or fingers ar... |
11 September 2007
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As everything you do (from spitting to nose fishing) is genetically controlled, it is normal to think that left-handedness is also genetic. Now they have found its gene, named LRRTM1, which also presents an increased risk of being prone to some mental illnesses like schizophrenia."For right-handed people, the right s... |
2 August 2007
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Besides having "four hands", monkeys are also known for their imitation ability, which we, humans, the two-handed monkeys, too, have it, even if we display it a bit more discreetly. Besides executing the slightest muscular contraction when accomplishing a task, our brains fire up the same pathways needed to perform a... |
19 July 2007
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A human has what is named bi-symmetry: he/she possesses two hands, two legs, two eyes, two cerebral hemispheres which look equal. But this is just an illusion. Firstly, we have a leading hand, in most people the right one and, secondly, a leading eye, the right one in two thirds of the people, as researchers have fou... |
26 March 2007
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