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Blogged: Give me strength! We operate well below our maximum physical strength, but swearing can give us a small boost. Yet, in extreme situations, we can mobilize literally all the strength we have... but not consciously make that choice. Isnât that odd?
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A blink of an eye is shortâon average, we blink 650,000,000 times over a lifetime. The universe is big. A lot can happen in the blink of an eye. A hell of a lot. Such as⊠(3 minutes and 10 seconds to give you something to think when you blink):
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How lucky are we to be born when and where we were? If human was picked at random from the roughly 117 billion who were ever born, from what region and what era might they hail?
@emollick.bsky.social
made good use of Claude Opus 4.8 to produce this wonderful app:
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about 8 hours ago
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Nostalgia, an often bittersweet experience, tends to heighten positive feelings. It harks back to early recollections, and while their link with nostalgia is poorly understood, our oldest memories do shape what contributes to our wellbeing:
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Credit cards are an intricate, regressive redistribution mechanism. Research by Egan et al disentangles the forces driving this process in the US that transfers an estimated $30 billion annually from cash and debit card users to credit card users:
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about 11 hours ago
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Research suggests swearing while exerting physical effort can give us a modest, but significant strength boost. Yet even that is way below our absolute maximum potential. Is there a way to tap into âsuperhumanâ strength? Yep, and itâs quite remarkable:
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about 15 hours ago
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The demise of John and Mary, and the sustained dominance of Liam and Oliviaâwhat do US parents want to signal with their offspringâs first names?
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about 16 hours ago
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Fair trade producten zijn duurder, maar niet inherent beter, en wie ze koopt doet dat uit principe. Maar als we daarvoor slechts een beperkt bedrag extra bereid zijn te betalen, hoeveel is dat principe dan werkelijk waard? Mijn @apache_be stukje:
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about 18 hours ago
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New research in multi-party Canada suggests voters use âleftâ and ârightâ political labels of candidates (and for themselves) as mental shortcuts for (in)congruency, rather than as an accurate reflection of the policies supported:
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about 20 hours ago
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There are two kinds of fluidsâregular (like water and alcohol), and weird (eg paint and blood). Some of the weird ones firm up above a certain flow rate, for reasons that were a mystery⊠until now:
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about 21 hours ago
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In scientific research too, it is sometimes advisable to quit. The call for âmore researchâ is often futileânotably when âinconclusiveâ or âmixed resultsâ is really the best result achievable, suggests @cjferguson1111:
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đ¶Consumer Psychology! *Huhh!!* <den-der> What is it good for?!đ” Well, more than absolutely nothingâ@neuroscienceof.bsky.social discusses several features. One to remember is ethical marketing:
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Research by Jacquemet et al suggests courtroom oaths are more than theatre and empty symbolismâit found swearing an oath reduced deception by nearly 40%, even under incentives to lie, without impairing truth-tellersâ performance.
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Mr Beastâs philanthropy, publicized on his YouTube channel, and use of the ad income to fund more good causesâphilanthrotainmentâ attracts a puzzling revulsion.
@mbialek82.bsky.social
picks apart this odd case of moral dumbfounding:
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TL;DR:đ§”https://buff.ly/9MlblZD
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Blogged: Give me strength! We operate well below our maximum physical strength, but swearing can give us a small boost. Yet, in extreme situations, we can mobilize literally all the strength we have... but not consciously make that choice. Isnât that odd?
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Americans want less inequality, but oppose policies to reduce it. đ€ Research by Broska et al finds resistance is stronger to *redistribution* (transfers after tax), not to *predistribution* (eg raising wages):
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Many peopleâs last few living moments are a gentle, silent skipping away as body and mind shut down. But in some cases, there is a phenomenon known as terminal lucidityâa brief, unexpected return of clarity. What exactly might be going on?
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2 days ago
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Offspring cannibalism is widespread, and observed in species as diverse as insects, spiders, fish, and even domestic pets. Isnât eating oneâs babies counterproductive? Not necessarily:
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21 centuries ago, someone used a sling bullet to deliver an insulting message. Last year it was found:
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2 days ago
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âThe problem [with a target] is not just that we contort our behaviour to hit the target in the service of some bureaucratic incentive; itâs that we cease to realise that we are contorting our behaviourlâ Tim Harford shares his unease at targets:
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2 days ago
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Lies, damn lies and charts? A statistician looks at some scary climate change charts, and concludes they are wrong:
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2 days ago
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We may start outsourcing *thinking* to machines, but we should be wary about delegating *judgment* to them, argues John Nostaâthe responsibility for making decisions belongs to humans:
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2 days ago
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Research by Martuza et al suggests both Democrat and Republican voters lie 9% more if it benefits ingroup members than if it benefits outgroup members and that both overestimate outgroup dishonesty more than ingroup dishonesty:
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2 days ago
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âTraumaâ begets traumaâthe more we talk about it, the more it means. And what it means has been shifting over time, too:
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3 days ago
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Is power posing a Thing after all? The author of the original research offers new evidence. Daniel
@lakens.bsky.social
first ignored, but thankfully later took a critical look đ âfinding little to convince, and much to be sceptical. Salutary reading for fans:
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We are systematically unaware of the mishaps, problems, and failures around us, research by Eskreis-Winkler et al suggests. This âfailure gapâ influences our decisions (including policy making), but can be closed:
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Alzheimer's disease and late-life depression are both common in older adults and share many symptoms, which complicates accurate diagnosis. New research has been mapping the structural and chemical differences between the two:
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Who needs a brain? âIn its quest to feed, avoid nasty substances and just generally live its life, the brainless, one-celled Physarum polycephalum performs some impressive tricks of learning and memory,â writes Tim Vernimmen about a slime mold:
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3 days ago
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(Not so) spontaneous combustion:
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3 days ago
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Advertising (and copy!) is increasingly laced with terms like âbrain-basedâ or sprinkled with âneuroâ-this and âneuroâ-that. Does this âseductive allure of neuroscience explanationsâ (SANE) phenomenon actually make any difference?
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3 days ago
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Human energy is not quite like a battery that gets recharged through doing nothing alone. Counterintuitively, that can make you *more* tired, writes
@neuranne.bsky.social
, suggesting more effective ways of restoring your energy levels:
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3 days ago
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The challenge isnât deciding whether to use AI or not, but to decide with what it gives you. Matt Grawitch explores the judgment problem behind AI, following on from his earlier post:
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3 days ago
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Research by Allard et al suggests the relative appeal of higher-priced compared to lower-priced products (like flights or computer storage) increases if their price is shown as a differential (â$ x moreâ) vs as an absolute figure:
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3 days ago
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Should a choice of universityâa pretty high-stakes decisionâdepend on the weather during a campus tour? No, but it is, research suggests: -10% applications when blazing hot, -8% when it rains. Can we turn off this mechanism that filters on vibe?
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4 days ago
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Research by Oshri et al suggests low-to-moderate levels of perceived stress increase working memory-related neural activations, leading to better behavioural performance (esp. in people enjoying higher levels of social support and psychological assets):
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4 days ago
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Fair trade products are dearer, but not because theyâre inherently superior, yet some buy them anywayâout of principle. However, if thereâs a maximum to the extra weâre prepared to pay⊠how much of a principle is it, really?
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4 days ago
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Onze waarden en principes zijn richtsnoeren die een belangrijke rol spelen in onze keuzesâook in onze aankopen. Maar als er een grens is aan hoeveel geld we daarvoor over hebben, zijn ze dan wel zo betekenisvol? Mijn
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4 days ago
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Does the brain predict words in the same way that AI does? New research suggests itâs more complicatedâmore like how we look at surrounding pieces of a puzzle to decide where to place the next piece rather than only what word comes next:
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We donât normally put a price tag on our principles, and happily pay âa bit moreâ for fair trade produce or in an independent shop. But what is our limit where we give our principles upâand what does such a ceiling say about how genuine they are?
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Is it morally good for people to suffer as retribution for an offence or causing harm? TS Scanlon thinks this is not justified, but suggests other responses. The 4th stops short of, âHe got what was coming to him!ââjust: âIâm not sorry.â
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HT @robsica
4 days ago
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We kopen vaak niet de goedkoopste optie vanwege principesâliever fair trade of van een onafhankelijke winkel. Maar hoeveel mĂ©Ă©r zijn we bereid te betalenâmaw, voor hoeveel verkopen we onze principes? Mijn
@apache.be
stukje, De prijs van een principe:
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4 days ago
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âMy phone becomes a graveyard of unanswered invitations, each one a tiny death Iâm allowing to happen.â When you realize long friendships have been dead for years and all youâve been doing is performing CPR on a corpse:
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5 days ago
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âThis is the spiritual music that weâre doing out here. Itâs keeping the world together, this thing we call jazzââsaxophonist Sonny Rollins who died yesterday, aged 95. Here he performs God Bless the Child (from the Bridge):
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5 days ago
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Itâs not just what you eat, but *with* what. Research by Harrar & Spence suggests the properties of the cutlery can affect peopleâs taste perception of everyday foods:
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3-8 year olds in Singapore, when given explicit permission for lying in a lab strategy game, were less likely to use deception rather than more, new research found, without a clear-cut explanation:
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5 days ago
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I remember being fascinated by erasers as a kid. Only today did I find out how they really do their magic:
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Tuesday 26 May is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Miles Davisâone of the most innovative and inspiring jazz musicians of all time. From later in his career, his cover of Scritti Polittiâs Perfect Wayâlive in Munich, three years before his death:
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A Danish study of decades administrative records linking health, income, and criminal histories, suggests an association between a cancer diagnosis and a measurable and lasting rise in the probability that a person commits a crime:
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Ancient philosophersâ game night means⊠Greek Hold'em!
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âYou canât have an exciting, dynamic, creative, society and one which also follows all the rules of decorum and good taste.â The British chose the former and must live with the corresponding messiness, writes @davetrott:
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(I think Iâm creative, toođ)
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Thereâs a lot of political misinformation about, but who is the most targeted by it? Why, *our own* side, of course! This is what research by Van Erkel et alâcoining the âhostile misinformationâ effectâsuggests:
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HT @acerbialberto
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