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  • Scientists: Funny People are Smarter

    Scientists: Funny People are Smarter0

    This may come as a surprise or it may not, but according to a 2011 study from researchers at the University of New Mexico, funny people seem to be a bit smarter than your average person.  The University of New Mexico asked 400 psychology students to complete measures of abstract reasoning ability and verbal intelligence

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  • Scientists Still Need to Study the Liberal Arts

    Scientists Still Need to Study the Liberal Arts0

    Modern education tends to focus on STEM — the acronym for “Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math” — to the exclusion of the liberal arts. But when it comes to education, it shouldn’t be an “either-or” between the sciences and the liberal arts but a “both-and.” The liberals arts offer an indispensable foundation for those who

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  • Scientists may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe

    Scientists may have discovered evidence of a parallel universe0

    Scientists have long tried to explain the origin of a mysterious, large and anomalously cold region of the sky. In 2015, they came close to figuring it out as a study showed it to be a “supervoid” in which the density of galaxies is much lower than it is in the rest of the universe.

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  • Scientists Have Created a Flux Capacitor

    Scientists Have Created a Flux Capacitor0

    The technology that allowed Marty McFly to travel back in time in the 1985 movie Back to the Future was the mythical flux capacitor, designed by inventor Doc Brown. We’ve now developed our own kind of flux capacitor, as detailed recently in Physical Review Letters. While we can’t send a DeLorean car back in time,

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  • Scientists Finding Ways to Upload Knowledge to our Brains

    Scientists Finding Ways to Upload Knowledge to our Brains0

    The dream that every science-fiction nerd has had since watching The Matrix is one step closer to becoming a reality. Remember that pivotal scene when Neo gets a healthy dose of martial arts knowledge uploaded to his brain by his new buddy, Tank, and then proceeds to fight Morpheus in an epic duel, showcasing his new talents?   Yeah,

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  • Scientists Can’t Avoid Philosophy

    Scientists Can’t Avoid Philosophy0

    • January 22, 2016

    For the past generation or so, more and more physicists have been asking and speculating on questions traditionally thought of as philosophical. Much of that is summed up in journalist Jim Holt’s witty, absorbing book Why Does the World Exist?: An Existential Detective Story (2013). However, a certain subset of those physicists—the best-known being Stephen

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