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| The future is in your head |
| From mood fixers to smarter kids, brain science is poised to have a huge impact, reports Aisling Irwing |
| Take a sprinkling of scientists and mix with a frisson of philosophers. Do lots of stirring; add train guards, artists, accountants and school teachers... and what do you get? A soggy mess of lay people confused by brain-science jargon, such as neurotransmission and voxel-based morphometry? This was... |
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| Happy homecoming |
| A long journey ended and a new one began in the same way, with sleepless nights. On January 15, the sample capsule from the Stardust spacecraft made a
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| Debunking a software myth |
If one programmer writes 20 lines of program in a day, how many programmers will it take to write a million lines in one year? The simple-minded answer would be (go on, I’ll work it out for you!) 200 programmers working 250 days a year could wri ... | Read..
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| QED: Fixed-deposit death
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THE MUMMY RETURNS? Yes, it does. This time, however, it’s rich Americans who have taken a leaf out of ancient Egyptian rituals to immortalise themselves. They are preparing to have their bodies deep-frozen at the moment of death to be “awake
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FORTUNE’s FORMULA William Poundstone Hill and Wang; $ 27... |
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When I first heard about magnetic resonance therapy (MRT), it sounded so far-fetched as to border on science fiction. I’m supposed to lie on a bed of magnets so that my body can be retuned to the earth’s frequency. And this will renew me at ... | 
