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...passed last month by the Utah legislature that could send offenders to prison for 15 years. But while such a law may help ensure that perpetrators get the penalty they deserve, it may save few lives. Texters who get lucky and avoid an accident will be hard to detect, since phones are small and many hold theirs in their...
...This pushes the envelope further in attempting to detect dysfunction in the brain at a stage earlier than any detectable clinical measurement of cognitive decline," says Dr. Ralph Nixon, a psychiatrist at New York University and vice chair of the medical and scientific advisory council of the Alzheimer's Association. "We all know that the brain is changing metabolically at a very early stage of the disease, well before clinical symptoms. This type of technique validates that concept...
...walk away with this stuff, and it's unlikely to be noticed," says Wischmeyer. With one self-administered dose lasting for a five-minute high, the drug offers a quick escape, then a quick disappearance from the bloodstream. "For professionals, it's easy to get and difficult to detect," says Wischmeyer. "You can use this drug and be back at work and no one will even know you were using...
...Nationwide Mutual Insurance survey found that only 63% of drivers planned to abide by laws prohibiting cell phones. So parents, employers and insurance companies are stepping in to help minimize driver distraction. In the next few months, several technology start-ups will release new products for phones that can detect when a car is in motion and automatically log incoming calls and texts much as a personal assistant would. All the products have provisions that allow both incoming and outgoing calls during emergencies...
What's more, a lot of the time, we don't want to detect lies in other people. We are unwilling to put forward the cognitive effort to suspect the veracity of statements, and we aren't motivated to question people when they tell us things we want to hear. When we ask someone, "How are you doing?" and they say, "Fine," we really don't want to know what their aches and pains are. So we take "Fine" at face value. (Read a TIME story on ground rules for telling lies...