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Heart attack risk decreases to 6 times following week of grieving, then declines over one month
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Learn about city pigeons, watch pigeons for science, learn cool facts, and increase your awareness of nature in your neighborhood [More]
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Our brains are exquisitely tuned to perceive, recognize and remember faces. We can easily find a friend’s face among dozens or hundreds of unfamiliar faces in a busy street. We look at each other’s facial expressions for signs of appreciation and disapproval, love and contempt
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Read More »EU Introducing Cookie Regulations, Groupon And Deutsche Telekom Partner Up, Free Mobile Launching In France
Breaking news from your editors at Fast Company, with updates all day. EU Introducing Cookie Regulations . New European Union regulations will require customers to explicitly opt-in to receive cookies from websites
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As baby boomers come of retirement age and find they have cash to burn, they are looking to spend their golden years seeking out new experiences and visiting new places.
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Read More »Generation Flux: Baratunde Thurston
A look at Baratunde Thurston, the Director of Digital at The Onion, a Harvard philosophy major turned consultant turned standup comedian and author of How to Be Black. Flux to the core.
Read More »World s First Oil Cartel Deep in the Heart of Texas
One hundred and eleven years ago today – on January 10, 1901 – an oil gusher rang in a new era in energy leadership. This was the day when a plume of oil surged almost 100 feet into the air at Lucas No. 1, at Spindletop near Beaumont, Texas
Read More »Voter Turnout Is Tied to Sense of Identity
Boosting voter turnout could be as simple as making individuals see voting as part of who they are rather than as something they do. [More]
Read More »Ballot Secrecy Keeps Voting Technology at Bay
Voters in the recent Iowa caucuses and Tuesday's New Hampshire primary will rely on paper ballots as they have for generations. In the very next primary on January 21, South Carolinians will vote with backlit touch-screen computers. [More]
Read More »Video: Mix up leads to massive drug recall
The FDA reports powerful prescription painkillers, including Percocet, may have been packaged with over the counter medications by mistake -- leading to a large-scale drug recall. Dr
Read More »GRAIL Mission May Find A Former Second Moon
Did Earth once have two moons? It may take two lunar spacecraft to find out.
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