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Eyes with lower pigment (blue or grey eyes) don’t need to absorb as much light as brown or dark eyes before this information reaches the retinal cells. This might provide light-eyed people with some resilience to SAD.
Without a solid understanding of the factors that affect the transfer of learning, the gulf between training and job performance is difficult to bridge.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
We don’t know when or how music was originally invented, but we can now track its evolution across space and time thanks to the Global Jukebox.
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Can psychedelics solve the ‘hard problem’ of consciousness? A Johns Hopkins professor explains.
We thought the Big Bang started it all. Then we realized that something else came before, and it erased everything that existed prior.
St Nick had a history of teleporting long before needing to reach all the world's children in one night.
For the first time in nearly 1500 years, fewer than half the people in England and Wales consider themselves Christian.
The science fiction dream of a traversable wormhole is no closer to reality, despite a quantum computer's suggestive simulation.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.