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- Feeding without the frenzy: Students make fun feeders for orangutans and giraffes
- Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit
- Cellist achieves optimal performance through neurofeedback
- Antarctic octopus study shows West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have collapsed 200,000 years ago
- New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian mountains
- Two trepanned skulls from the Middles Ages are found in Soria, Spain
- Computer scientists show what makes movie lines memorable
| Feeding without the frenzy: Students make fun feeders for orangutans and giraffes Posted: 09 May 2012 12:42 PM PDT Like their human cousins, orangutans enjoy food and don't mind working a little to get it. If the menu's right, giraffes are even less picky.  |
| Why do people choke when the stakes are high? Loss aversion may be the culprit Posted: 09 May 2012 11:00 AM PDT In sports, on a game show, or just on the job, what causes people to choke when the stakes are high? A new study suggests that when there are high financial incentives to succeed, people can become so afraid of losing their potentially lucrative reward that their performance suffers.  |
| Cellist achieves optimal performance through neurofeedback Posted: 09 May 2012 09:36 AM PDT "Practice makes perfect," the saying goes. Optimal performance, however, can require more than talent, effort, and repetition. Training the brain to reduce stress through neurofeedback can remove barriers and enhance one's innate abilities.  |
| Antarctic octopus study shows West Antarctic Ice Sheet may have collapsed 200,000 years ago Posted: 09 May 2012 08:14 AM PDT Scientists have found that genetic information on the Antarctic octopus supports studies indicating that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could have collapsed during its history, possibly as recently as 200,000 years ago.  |
| New light on enigmatic burial rituals in Cambodian mountains Posted: 09 May 2012 06:28 AM PDT Researchers working in remote Cambodian mountains are shedding new light on the lost history of an unidentified people by studying their enigmatic burial rituals.  |
| Two trepanned skulls from the Middles Ages are found in Soria, Spain Posted: 09 May 2012 06:25 AM PDT Two skulls with perforations have been exhumed in the area of Gormaz in Soria, Spain. They have been dated from the 13th and 14th centuries -- a period in which trepanation was not commonly practiced. One woman lived for a length of time after a hole was made through her skull.  |
| Computer scientists show what makes movie lines memorable Posted: 08 May 2012 07:00 PM PDT Researchers who applied computer analysis to a database of movie scripts think they may have found the secret to a memorable movie line - use familiar sentence structure but incorporate distinctive words or phrases, and make general statements that could apply elsewhere.  |
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