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...learn a lot about gambling if you're willing to analyze 27 million hands of online poker. Don't have time for that? No worries; sociology doctoral student Kyle Siler of Cornell University has done it for you. His counterintuitive message: the more hands you win, the more money you're likely to lose - and this has implications that go well beyond a hand of cards...
...involve discernible risks and uncertain rewards. The more small returns you get from your small investments in stocks, the likelier you are to make - and lose - a big investment. The more times you get behind the wheel and speed a little bit, the likelier you are to speed a lot - with deadlier consequences...
...paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences makes that argument a lot harder to sustain. João Zilhão of the University of Bristol, along with several colleagues, has uncovered Neanderthal jewelry from two caves in southern Spain dating to about 50,000 years ago. "This," says Zilhão, "is 10,000 years before modern humans arrived. There is no question that Neanderthals are their makers...
...Diaz and Nickels] both know a lot about American cities,” Purcell said, “but each has also been involved with and has been very thoughtful about broader international issues, from the environment to immigration...
...think this is just a case of a young team gaining experience,” Delaney-Smith said. “It was never, ‘You guys played great at home, you’re not playing well on the road.’ There were a lot of other factors that contributed to that, and I think some of those are starting to come together...