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Summer means sunshine, and while many public beaches aren’t reopened (yet), we’re holding out hope that we’ll get to walk in the sand before the summer ends. Maybe you’re a total ocean fiend, or maybe you just have fond childhood memories from the shore and want to share that with your own kids. Either way, that bucolic beach can also […]
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Keeping it real! Jana Kramer came to her 3-year-old daughter Jolie’s defense after the toddler threw a temper tantrum. “This is 3,” the “Beautiful Lies” singer, 35, captioned a Sunday, June 23, Instagram video of her little one screaming and throwing herself to the ground. “No matter how much Mike [Caussin] and I discipline, love and parent. Jolie isn’t a […]
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What with Facetime, Skype, Whatsapp and Snapchat, for many people, face-to-face conversation is used less and less often. These apps allow us to converse with each other quickly and easily – overcoming distances, time zones and countries. We can even talk to virtual assistants such as Alexa, Cortana or Siri – commanding them to play our favourite songs, films, or […]
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Deb Baranec wasn’t always obese. As a teenager, she carried a few extra pounds but managed it by being active. Her weight crept up, however, and by the time she suffered her first knee injury while skiing at the age of 27, she weighed close to 200 pounds. Doctors advised Baranec to lose weight to relieve the stress on her […]
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We make judgements quite rationally or “by the gut.” Not only experience and relevant information play an important role, but also our preferences. A study by the Max Planck Institute for Metabolism Research in Cologne shows how the reward system in the brain conveys judgements affected by one’s own desires. “In complex, confusing situations, we run the risk of making […]
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Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have uncovered a key factor protecting against age-related DNA damage, providing important clues about how our body guards against cancer. The discovery was made by identifying a rare genetic mutation in three patients with an unusual, early-onset form of acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). The patients all lacked a DNA repair protein called MBD4, which […]
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We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others’ personalities work, finds a new study by a team of psychology researchers. We make snap judgments of others based not only on their facial appearance, but also on our pre-existing beliefs about how others’ personalities work, finds a […]
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The immune system can be an important ally in the fight against cancer. A study from McGill scientists published today in Science suggests that the reverse may also be true—that abnormal inflammation triggered by the immune system may underlie the development of stomach tumours in patients with a hereditary cancer syndrome known as Peutz-Jeghers Syndrome (PJS). The findings are likely […]
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With each passing day, we sleep. It’s such a mundane activity that hardly anyone takes the time to look into the dynamics at play during naptime. Most people make plans for the next day and set their alarms to wake them after a couple of hours so they can re-do the day again, albeit, in a better fashion. Such is […]
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Our brains are obsessed with being social even when we are not in social situations. A Dartmouth-led study finds that the brain may tune towards social learning even when it is at rest. The findings published in an advance article of Cerebral Cortex, demonstrate empirically for the first time how two regions of the brain experience increased connectivity during rest […]
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