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The Third Hand Illusion

The brain usually has a pretty good idea of what is part of the body and what is not--although the classic rubber hand illusion can convince people to adopt a fake hand as their own when one of their real hands is hidden from view. Researchers at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm have added a strange new twist to this experiment, persuading volunteers to believe that they have three hands rather than two. The psychologists accomplished this sensory legerdemain by placing a false rubber right hand next to the subject’s real right hand and covering both with a cloth from the wrist up (to obscure which one was connected to the body)

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Tiger ailing in both body, mind

GolfChannel: With Tuesday’s news that Tiger Woods will miss the U.S. Open at Congressional while healing from his latest knee and Achilles injuries, you can’t help wondering about Woods’ psyche as much as you wonder about his body.

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The All-New Aston Martin Virage Strikes a Balance

Aston Martin has done a remarkable job designing each and every one of its cars in a way that appeals to both the style-minded and performance-obsessed buyer. For some, however, the body lines and badge letters begin to blur somewhere between the DB9 and DBS models, to a degree in ...

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Reclaim Your Life, One Experience At A Time

From work to play, how can someone get the most out of what they do? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from Flow (1990) by Mihály Csíkszentmihályi

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The Knee Bone’s Connected To The Smartphone

That's the future we envision, after seeing this Microsoft tech that projects what's going on underneath your skin, on top of your skin. One of the greatest health scourges of this country or any one isn't a bacterium, virus, or disease at all. Rather, it's a behavior--or, to put a finer point on it, a lack of a behavior.

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‘Master switch’ for obesity, diabetes found

Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a "master switch" that controls other genes found in fat in the body, and say it should help in the search for treatments for obesity-related diseases.

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Patent Watch: Registering Impacts in Sports

Masters of the martial art of Tae Kwon Do have gotten so lightning-quick that even a team of four judges placed around a competition ring can have a hard time keeping up.

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