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Weekend Tidbits

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Oct 21, 2012

Sea otters are the largest members of the weasel family.When people started hunting sea otters for their fur, their population fell from roughly 225,000 to about 1,500, until the International Fur Sea ...

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Oct 20, 2012

When subjects are asked to watch a movie and not display emotions (say, a comedy without laughing, or a tearjerker without crying), they evidently use up glucose in particular areas of their brain in ...

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Oct 14, 2012

Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that motivates us to engage in rewarding activities such as eating and sex. Animals without dopamine stop eating and starve to death.Certain drugs are able to activate d ...

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Oct 13, 2012

Numerous studies have shown that people are over-confident in their own abilities. Most people, for example, think that they are better drivers than average.This doesn't make any sense because surely ...

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Oct 7, 2012

In an office area, there is a coffee machine and a jar in which peopleare asked to put voluntary contributions for the coffee they consume.There is a picture above the jar.Each week the picture is cha ...

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Oct 6, 2012

People were shown a bunch of writing purporting to make various claims about facts about the world, then were asked later which facts they believed.It turns out when the writing was written in better ...

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Sep 23, 2012

Evidently, when you are thinking about a problem, you use up glucose.This can be seen by monitoring blood glucose as people work on math problems and the like.Roy Baumeister conducted an experiment wh ...

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Sep 23, 2012

An experiment was run by Walter Mischel with four-year-olds back in the 1960s. Each child was brought into a room in which there was an Oreo cookie. The child was told that s/he could have the Oreo ri ...

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Sep 22, 2012

Check in every weekend for a couple of interesting facts that you may or may not already know. If not, hopefully you learned something. If so, what are your thoughts on the subject?Got your own tidbit ...