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In Brief
To Have and to Hold
In a survey of more than 2,000 adults conducted in 2007 by a motel chain in the U.K., one in five traveling salespeople slept with their childhood teddy bear.
People who chose their own $1 lottery ticket would only sell it back for $8, on average, compared with the mere $2 demanded by those who were simply given the ticket.
Shoppers remember more items dropped into their own basket than they do those put into another person’s.
Hayley has finished making a beautiful butterfly with a cookie cutter, which she pressed into the lump of Play-Doh that she just took from Pat.
This article was originally published with the title Passion for Possessions: Mine!.
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Add CommentWOW!!...that excerpt really got my interest!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisCan't wait to buy the issue....NOT!!!
How frustrating is SciAm. When they didn't send me my subscription to SciAm Mind (but did send my gift to my brother) I gave up on the print edition. Now, I buy and download every edition of SciAm Mind, but they forget. And, while they push ads and updates on me, I am not allowed to read or benefit by anything online!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNot only that, but they just tried to make me buy another copy of what I already bought.
Wish they were scientific enough to keep the website up-to-date and wish they would give me an online subscription, but . . . oh well. It's an interesting read when they aren't trying to get over on me.
Please try to use comments area for appropriate comments regarding the articles. Dear phineasboggs, try contacting customer services instead of whinning here.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisRegarding the article: The sense of disappointment that comes with haggling with buyers of my belongings is why I just give them away to charities.
Customer services for Sciam online tends to respond with "unable to recreate the issue" and then they ignore you.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIt is sad that what I once thought was the end all of magazines. I would buy subscriptions to it every year and that goes back to the late 60's and early 70's. I had a group of piles of old issues that I would fall back on until the web became so useful in the late 90's that actually had issues from 72. Anyway now I feel like I am reading USA today when I get my new issue and have seriously thought of cancelling the subscription going forward.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhen they do what this page does as a tease I am glad to see I am not the only one who thinks we have been had. I understand the world is moving away from the printed medium and the web is the medium of choice but it does not necessitate the medic-racy that SCIAM is stooping to.
It is a sad day for science and I notice that articles that have merit disappear as the military or big oil buy the brain work. To put information in the public specter and then remove it is another statement of how bad it is getting. I am referring directly to an article on work done at MIT where custom tipping of viruses was being done. The military is now using this as pliable batteries and I cannot find the original article anywhere. Shame on you SCIAM shame on you.