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Brain Predicts Future by Looking at Past

Brain Predicts Future by Looking at Past | Science News | Scoop.it
New research has shown how a certain region of the brain helps predict trends and how it sees pattern in random things.
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The emotional illusion that makes the future (and the past) look so rosy

The emotional illusion that makes the future (and the past) look so rosy | Science News | Scoop.it

A group of psychologists led by Harvard's Karl Spzunar have investigated our optimistic forecasting by testing people's memories of events that haven't actually happened.


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Shelf-Preservation: Researchers Tap Century-Old Brain Tissue for Clues to Mental Illness: Scientific American

Shelf-Preservation: Researchers Tap Century-Old Brain Tissue for Clues to Mental Illness: Scientific American | Science News | Scoop.it
Extracting DNA from a museum collection of jellied autopsied brains dating back to the 1890s may give researchers a new take on the study mental disorders...
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Are you past oriented or future oriented

How do you spend your time?  And do you reminisce about the past, or plan for the future? 

 

Consider thinking patterns of yourself and others with the following animation video.  

 

Includes interesting perspectives on how to deal with other people.


Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
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Study links Google search behavior to GDP

Study links Google search behavior to GDP | Science News | Scoop.it
Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic product (GDP) are more likely to search for information about the future than information about the past, a quantitative analysis of Google search queries has shown.
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New Scientist TV: One-Minute Physics: Why past and future are the same

New Scientist TV: One-Minute Physics: Why past and future are the same | Science News | Scoop.it

It's obvious that time has a direction: you were younger a decade ago than you are today. But according to the laws of physics, there is no intrinsic difference between the past and the future. In our latest One-Minute Physics animation, guest narrator Sean Carroll, a physicist at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, explains why a better understanding of the big bang will help explain the arrow of time.

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