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READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY
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READ THE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY

A rather obvious discovery has recently been made by a group of university researchers suggesting that there may be quite a few other discoveries that are out there waiting for someone to come along and unveil them. Little children enjoy listening to stories that adults read aloud to them and usually adults like reading these...

SKIN COLOR DOES NOT MATTER
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SKIN COLOR DOES NOT MATTER

It is well known that tone of voice, face muscles, body movements, choice of clothes and many of our behaviors, whether conscious or not, reflect our moods. We now know that our face skin color changes with our moods and those who look at us perceive our mood because they interpret the colors. Changes in...

A HELPING HAND TO THOSE IN NEED
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A HELPING HAND TO THOSE IN NEED

If you take the hand of someone who is suffering physical or psychic pain and whom you are fond of, not only will your heartbeats and breathing synchronize but so will specific EEG waves. For the one who is suffering the synchrony of events works as an analgesic. The greater the empathy between the two...

THROWING LIGHT ON BODY WEIGHT ISSUES
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THROWING LIGHT ON BODY WEIGHT ISSUES

Sitting in the sun favors weight loss and this effect is greatest in the early morning hours. The phenomenon was seen with all other factors being the same (calorie intake, physical exercise, body temperature, hours slept, season etc.). Of the many crucial effects attributed to sunlight one is that of controlling the internal clock that...

KIDS REMEMBER TO INTERRUPT YOUR PARENTS WHEN THEY SPEAK
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KIDS REMEMBER TO INTERRUPT YOUR PARENTS WHEN THEY SPEAK

About twenty years ago various studies concluded that it is very important to speak to children because there is a close link between the number of words heard and language ability later in life. A new study conducted with instruments that examine brain development and that were not available 20 years ago says that it...

HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD?
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HAVE YOU UNDERSTOOD?

If we understand what is being said when someone speaks to us our brain sends a signal that can be registered on an EEG. If instead we do not understand, or we simply are not paying attention, the listener’s brain does not send any signal. This discovery has many potential applications in many different fields....

MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ACCORDING TO ANTS
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MEDICAL ASSISTANCE ACCORDING TO ANTS

The Matabele ants risk their lives in battle every day. Two to four times a day they leave their nests and proceed in columns of about five hundred ants to fight battles with termites at their termite nests. Fierce battles take place and dead termites are carried back home as food. Although the ants are...

DON’T COPY
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DON’T COPY

There are things we can do alone, things we can do if someone helps us and things we can’t do even if someone helps. The zone of potential learning is the space between what we can do only if helped and what we cannot do even with help. The concept is important for three reasons....

EMOTIONAL CONTAGION
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EMOTIONAL CONTAGION

Emotions are contagious. They are passed on automatically, rapidly and frequently from one person to another. Such contagion is at the heart of empathy, social connections and relationships between people. Anger felt by a friend for an injustice or joy for an exam easily spill on to us. We often mime the expressions, posture and...

TEARS HELP
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TEARS HELP

Research shows that people who react emotionally to a failure are less likely to repeat their mistakes than people who respond rationally. Feelings work better than thoughts in avoiding that the same mistake be repeated twice. Feeling is better than understanding. After a failure many people tend to repress emotions and rationalize, or try to...

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