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5 Mind-Melting Ways Your Memory Plays Tricks On You
That's the positivity effect. Happy memories tend to remain in your mind in more vivid details, while negative memories fade Now, you probably have a moody friend who is scoffing at this, because they can spout a long list of ways life has wronged them over the years. Or maybe you're that friend.
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How Time Travel Works
From millennium-skipping Victorians to phone booth-hopping teenagers, the term time travel often summons our most fantastic visions of what it means to move through the fourth dimension. But of course you don't need a time machine or a fancy wormhole to jaunt through the years.
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If You Open Your Mind Too Much Your Brain Will Fall Out (Take My Wife) by Tim Minchin
Taken from the forthcoming series of ITV's 'Comedy Cuts'. Animator: Martin White ( http://www.martylog.com ) Director: Fergus March Director of Photography: Tim Jordan Producer: Rohan Acharya
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Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury - Rachel Bloom
BUY RACHEL'S ALBUM: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/please-love-me/id648598114 BUY "FUCK ME, RAY BRADBURY" T-SHIRTS: http://www.racheldoesstuff.com/store/ A sexy pop song dedicated to the science fiction/fantasy author, Ray Bradbury. 2011 Hugo Award Nominee for "Best Dramatic Presentation: Short
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Living life in augmented reality
Augmented reality smartphone apps allow users to view the world through their phone's camera with an overlay of useful local information. But with the advent of augmented reality games, could fantasy finally become reality? A shadowy organisation is stalking a lone individual across London.
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God particle signal is simulated as sound
Scientists have simulated the sounds set to be made by sub-atomic particles such as the Higgs boson when they are produced at the Large Hadron Collider.
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Animals 'are moral beings'
Some animals can feel and think in ways not too dissimilar from us, welfare campaigners say. They say there is evidence of altruism, with some animals acting disinterestedly for the good of others.
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Blood doping
Blood doping is the practice of boosting the number of red blood cells in the bloodstream in order to enhance athletic performance.
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Planck telescope reveals ancient cosmic light
This is the extraordinary place where we all live - the Universe. The picture is the first full-sky image from Europe's Planck telescope which was sent into space last year to survey the "oldest light" in the cosmos.
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Dilution
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Man admits posting airport bomb hoax on Twitter
A man has been warned he could face jail after admitting posting a message on Twitter threatening to blow an airport "sky high".Paul Chambers posted the message online after snow forced Robin Hood Airport in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, to close.
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Should we trust the wisdom of crowds?
A problem shared is a problem halved, goes the old saying. But what happens if you share a problem with millions of people? Are you left with a millionth of a problem? Or just lots of rubbish suggestions?
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Manchester historian deciphers hidden 'Plato Code'
A science historian in Manchester claims to have deciphered secret messages hidden in the ancient writings of the philosopher Plato.
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Icarus Interstellar
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A perfect view of the asteroid capsule's Earth return
Nothing can prevent it now. Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft is heading home after its seven-year round-trip to the asteroid Itokawa. I wrote earlier in the week about some of the woes Hayabusa experienced as it tried to grab dusty fragments from Itokawa's surface, and now it faces one last challenge.
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Cycle (graph theory)
In graph theory, a cycle in a graph is a non-empty trail in which only the first and last vertices are equal. A directed cycle in a directed graph is a non-empty directed trail in which only the first and last vertices are equal.
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BA apologises for Bin Laden 'boarding pass' gaffe
British Airways has apologised after a photograph in a staff magazine showed a frequent flyer boarding pass in the name of Osama Bin Laden. The image appeared on the front page of LHR News and was meant to promote the benefits of online check-in.
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Deep sea fish 'mystery migration' across Pacific Ocean
Deep sea fish species found in the north Pacific Ocean have mysteriously been caught in the southwest Atlantic, on the other side of the world. It is unclear how the animals, a giant rattail grenadier, pelagic eelpout and deep sea squid, travelled so far.
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'Crater' spied under California
Oil exploration work in California's Central Valley region has uncovered a possible space impact crater. The 5.5km-wide bowl is buried under shale sediments west of Stockton, in San Joaquin County, and is thought to be between 37 and 49 million years old.
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Malaysian web users team up for crowd-sourced film
Crowd-sourcing - the practice of enabling many people to help on a single task - is seen as one of the great triumphs of the world wide web. But one project in Malaysia is set to put the wisdom of crowds to the ultimate test, as it attempts to create a full-length feature film.
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Hubble's role in search for aliens
The powerful vision of the Hubble Telescope - which turns 20 this week - has expanded our cosmic horizons and brought into sharper focus a new set of mysteries about the universe that is our home. To those whose science is gleaned from the media, astronomy may seem to be on a roll. And it is.
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George Carlin- Does the time bother you? 1978 On location George Carlin Again.
Under the Fair use act of 1976 under section 107 this video is being used for educational purposes. TO make people THINK and question things in life. I make no money off this posting what so ever.
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Twitter used to predict box office hits
Micro-blogging service Twitter can be used to predict the future box-office takings of blockbuster films, according to researchers at Hewlett Packard (HP). The computer scientists studied 3 million messages - known as tweets - about 25 movies, including Avatar.
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Move to new planet, says Hawking
The human race must move to a planet beyond our Solar System to protect the future of the species, physicist Professor Stephen Hawking has warned. He told the BBC that life could be wiped out by a nuclear disaster or an asteroid hitting the planet.
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Omar Khayyam
Omar Khayyam (/kaɪˈjɑːm, kaɪˈjæm/; Persian: عمر خیّام [oˈmæɾ xæjˈjɒːm]; 18 May 1048 – 4 December 1131) was a Persian polymath, mathematician, astronomer, philosopher, and poet.
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