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What Does a Smart Brain Look Like?: Inner Views Show How We Think
A new neuroscience of intelligence is revealing that not all brains work in the same way
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Rational and Irrational Thought: The Thinking That IQ Tests Miss
We assume intelligence and rationality go together. But we shouldn't be surprised when smart people do foolish things.
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True Love: How to Find It
Combing through your social network is the most fruitful—and most common—way of finding
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Why We Worry
Chronic worrying stems from a craving for control. But the more we fret, the less our bodies are able to cope with stress
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Alzheimer's Update: New Insight May Speed Therapies
New technologies for spotting Alzheimer's disease are poised to unravel its cause and speed progress toward effective treatments
By Joel N. Shurkin
Secrets of How Meditation Works
New research reveals the cell mechanisms underlying
a meditative state
By Peter B. Reiner
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Slideshows
Google Droid is here: Can it go toe-to-toe with Apple's iPhone?
Frozen Antarctic lakes yield new viruses
Prospects for solar: "It's like watching the Internet mature in 1995"
Are there asexuals among us? On the possibility of a "fourth" sexual orientation
NASA-funded monkey-radiation experiment raises hackles
What will it take to force political action on climate change?
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Don't Let the Bedbugs Bite: Pest Management Proves More Effective than Pesticides