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Dogs can read human emotions
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Dog owners often say they "know" that their dog understands what they’re feeling. Now, scientists have the evidence to back this up. Researchers tested 17 adult dogs of various breeds to see whether they could recognize emotional expressions in the faces and voices of humans and other dogs - an ability that’s considered a higher cognitive talent because two different senses are involved. Each dog took part in two test sessions with 10 trials. One by one, they stood facing two screens on which the researchers projected photos of unfamiliar but happy/playful human or dog faces versus the same faces with angry/aggressive expressions (as in the photo above). At the same time, the scientists played a single vocalization - either a dog bark, ...
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Could pink prison cells calm prisoners down? This psychologist thinks so
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Would someone feel more calm after seeing the colour blue? Or perhaps they would feel more aggressive after having seen the colour red? Swiss psychiatrist, Max Lüscher, had completed a study in the 20 th century that linked colour preference to your personality and your mental state. His belief was further hardwired after an experiment concluded that 151 out of 153 people were weaker after looking at the pink card, when compared to how strong they were when they had looked at the blue card. ...
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9 years ago |
Want to know what it's like to read while dyslexic?
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A UK designer has created a new font that aims to help people understand what it feels like to read and write when you have dyslexia. It was accomplished by erasing around 40 percent of the lines from classic typeface Helvetica. Try to read the following: The poster above says: THIS TYPOGRAPHY IS NOT DESIGNED TO RECREATE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE TO READ TO READ. IF YOU WERE DYSLEXIC, IT IS DESIGNED TO STIMULATE THE FEELING OF READING WITH DYSLEXIA BY SLOWING THE READING TIME OF THE VIEWER DOWN TO A SPEED OF WHICH SOMEONE WHO HAS DYSLEXIA WOULD READ. ...
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9 years ago |
Which box has the car?
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Time for a riddle! There are 3 boxes. One of them has a car that you get to keep. On each box there is a statement. You know that only one of these statements is true.
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9 years ago |
When's the best time to make a decision?
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You might think that it's better to be well-fed rather than starving when you're trying to make a big, life-changing decision, but new research suggests quite the opposite. According to a research study conducted by Utrecht University in the Netherlands, people who were hungry because of having fasted overnight perform better on a complex decision task than sated people. ( Click here to read the research). This provides a first piece of evidence that the hot state of hunger improves, rather than compromises, advantageous decision making. Their experimental evidence suggests that the "hot state of hunger promoted rather than compromised complex decisions with uncertain outcomes that are advantageous in the long run as hungry participants were ...
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9 years ago |
The descent into Alzheimer's disease
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A doctor chronicles the signatures of his patient as the disease took hold of her. Our love goes out to anyone who's dealt with this awful disease in some way.
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10 years ago |
Global warming, a cause for hunger
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A lack of sea ice caused by global warming meant this polar bear was unable to hunt seals and died of starvation. The carcass was found in northern Svalbard, Norway, far from its normal range, where he probably was looking for food.
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