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Trying to make your team come around to your way of thinking is often a waste of time. Here's what you can do instead. Most people hate to be told what to do.
Read More »Chinese group breaks distance record for teleporting qubits
(Phys.org) -- A team of Chinese physicists has broken the distance record for teleporting qubits, extending it from 16 to 97 kilometers. They did so, as they explain in their paper uploaded to the preprint server arXiv, using the phenomenon known as entanglement.
Read More »Study confirms some women orgasm during exercise
Exercise sometimes causes women to orgasm or "coregasm," nicknamed for the core abdominal muscle exercises that often trigger the phenomenon, researchers said
Read More »‘Horizontal Tornado’ Captured By Amateur Videographer
New images of a weird weather phenomenon known as a roll cloud have surfaced from Richland, Miss. [More]
Read More »Video: Fear of losing cell phone: There’s name for that!
It's nomophobia. Many of us get anxious when we're not near our cell phones. Rebecca Jarvis and John Miller speak with clinical psychologist Dr
Read More »La Nina Seems to Have Peaked and Is Set to Decline
GENEVA (Reuters) - La Nina, a weather phenomenon usually linked to heavy rains and flooding in Asia-Pacific and South America and drought in Africa, seems to have reached its peak and is expected to fade between March and May, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday. A weak to moderate La Nina pattern has cooled the tropical Pacific since around October, a considerably weaker event than in 2010-11, the United Nations agency said in a statement. [More]
Read More »Synchronized Eating: Social Influences on Eating Behavior
When I was a kid, I used to spend hours listening to Adam Carolla and Dr. Drew Pinsky on their Sunday night call-in radio show Loveline . I listened so often that I began to incorporate one of their catchphrases – “good times” – into my daily conversations.
Read More »Patents By The Numbers: Average Wait Time Is Down, But Trolls Cost Us $80 Billion A Year
Starting last fall and stretching through mid-2013, the U.S. has been overhauling the patent-approval process for the first time since 1952.
Read More »The Power of a Dissenting Voice
Be wary of unanimous decisions and bold when you face them. Neuroscience and sociology, and a recent meeting I attended, underscore this point. I sat in a board meeting recently as we debated a new strategic initiative.
Read More »Do You Secretly Fear Creativity?
Psychologists warn that stated beliefs and actual behavior often don't match up when it comes to innovation. Among young entrepreneurs , creativity is like gold, with just about every aspiring business owner proudly honing their reputation as an innovator. Of course this makes sense—no one is going to pay for the same old thing they have already
Read More »Moods Change in Response to Our Subliminal Goals
It happens to all of us: we suddenly and inexplicably feel cheery or blue, even though our mood was quite different just moments before. Often the culprit is a subliminal cue, or, as psychologists call it, priming. But we do not have to be at the mercy of these unconscious cues.
Read More »Leadership Hall of Fame: Daniel Pink, Author of "Free Agent Nation"
With the economic downturn and the evolution of the business world in the last 10 years, has our ability to succeed on our own changed? We continue our examination of the business book Free Agent Nation with an interview of author Daniel Pink
Read More »Is Daily Deals Dashboard Frugalo The Cure For Groupon Fatigue?
There is a lot of money riding on the daily deals phenomenon.
Read More »Rainfall suspected culprit in leaf disease transmission
Rainfalls are suspected to trigger the spread of a multitude of foliar (leaf) diseases, which could be devastating for agriculture and forestry. Instead of focusing on the large-scale, ecological impact of this problem, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge and the University of Liege in Belgium are studying the phenomenon from a novel perspective: that of a single rain droplet.
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