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Sometimes you don't know what you've got until it's gone. And that's the thought-experiment author Alan Weisman presents in his book The World Without Us - TIME's #1 Non-Fiction book of 2007. What if humanity were to vanish? What would happen to our planet...
The study also didn't ask participants why they thought one CEO looked more competent or trustworthy than another. The judgments being measured were happening more on a gut level. In that way, the experiment lends support to a growing argument among psychologists who study decision-making that when people...
The eight Harvard researchers urged use of the technique for other human pathogens as well, writing that their experiment had demonstrated the “power” of RNA interference to find new forms of treatment.
Moulton said null results have made previous ESP research difficult to interpret, but that he wanted to design an experiment that would give information independent of whether or not it produced null results.
Small distilleries were as common as cows in American farming communities before the Volstead Act banned the "manufacture, sale or transportation of intoxicating liquors" in the U.S. in 1919. Indeed, the No. 1-selling spirits marketer of the early Republic was George Washington, whose Mount Vernon estate sold 11,000...