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...divided them between a brightly lit room with 10 fluorescent bulbs burning and a dimmer room with only four bulbs. The subjects were each given a brown envelope with $10 in singles and coins as well as an empty white envelope. They were all then told they had five minutes to complete a simple mathematical task, looking for pairs of numbers that added up to 10 in a grid of three-digit numbers. They could keep 50 cents for every pair they found and were to put the leftover money in the brown envelope. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
When the researchers collected the envelopes and reviewed the results at the end of the five-minute period, what they found was striking. Consistently, the people in the dimmer room reported finding more matches - an average of 11.47 - than those in the bright room, who averaged just 7.78. When their work was checked, it turned out that cheating was rife in the dim room, with the participants there claiming an average of 4.21 more correct answers than they actually got, compared with 0.83 for the other room. Even though none of the subjects put their name on their paper...
...until the age of five, Amya’s home was the hospital. Her mother, Chele, stayed with her at a nearby Ronald McDonald House, but her father had to stay at home, making the four-hour drive to Duke University every other weekend...
Jeremy Lin averaged 17 points and six assists in the last two home games of his career, earning the Harvard co-captain Ivy Player of the Week. The league’s Rookie of the Week award went to teammate Brandyn Curry, who averaged 17.5 points and five assists over two nights...
...result, her five brothers and sisters—Jessica, Demetrius, Makayla, Gaige, and Tai—have had to come together and rely on each other. Demetrius—who also goes by Dee—took the lead without complaint...