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...best-performing exchanges in the world--first-time punters like Du have been storming into Chinese stocks, ending the market's five-year slump and in recent weeks pushing daily trading volume to new records. They are ignoring the stop signs raised by market experts and government officials, who warn that a correction might be coming...
...video clip depicting the torture of 21-year old minibus driver Emad El Kebir was sent to the cell phones of fellow drivers to warn them that the same can happen to them if they refuse to do the bidding of security officers. Kebir's humiliation in the Bulaq police station is alleged to have occurred in January 2006 after he got involved in a dispute between his cousin and the police. The images that first appeared last November appeared in a Cairo newspaper and were circulated by bloggers. El Kebir, whose father suffered a heart attack when...
That's certainly music to advertisers' ears, but, warn neuroscientists, it's unlikely that our purchasing behavior follows a single pathway. Montague, for one, is investigating how factors like trust, altruism and the feeling of obligation when someone does you a favor can divert and modify steps in the decision-making tree. "The capacity to use brain responses and relate them to behavior has accelerated at a breathtaking pace over the past four years and yielded an incredible amount of information," he says. How marketers use that data to hone their messages remains to be seen...
...technologies may become an intimate part of our lives sooner than we think. "It's not so futuristic," says Stanford neuropsychologist Judy Illes, "to imagine an employer able to test for who is a good team player, who a leader or a follower." Before such scans are used, neuroethicists warn, we must understand what they can and cannot do. A device that might be helpful in personnel testing, for example, might not be rigorous enough to be used in a criminal trial, where the standard of proof is higher. That's currently the case with the polygraph. But Farah...
Anxieties about climate change make good weather in winter a cause for concern, as well as for celebration. Climatologists frequently warn against making judgments on the plausibility of global warming based on anecdotal experiences of hot or cold weather, but as I basked in the sunlight of Saturday’s bizarre version of a winter wonderland, I couldn’t help but feel a little nervous. Visions of my family’s Manhattan apartment submerged by the swelling sea ran through my brain...