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2012-07-12 20:12:46     BBC News - The second brain in our stomachs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18779997

Its first stop was my stomach, whose complex work is und... what's sometimes called "the little brain", a network of... your stomach and your gut.
Surprisingly, there are over 100 million of these cells ...
The little brain does not do a lot of complex

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2013-12-03 17:18:50     BBC News - 'Memories' pass between generations

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25156510

Behaviour can be affected by events in previous generati...
Experiments showed that a traumatic event could affect t ...
A Nature Neuroscience study shows mice trained to avoid ...
Experts said the results were important for phobia and a ...
... system

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2015-11-27 22:56:13     Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-34744859

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2011-01-06 20:44:08     BBC News - Is working with your hands better than just with your head?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12108000

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2011-01-06 15:32:37     BBC News - Can you count the packets of crisps?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-12127631

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2011-10-30 08:30:52     BBC News - The Halloween myth of the War of the Worlds panic

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15470903

Mass panic and hysteria swept the United States on the e... 1938, when an all-too-realistic radio dramatisation of T... Worlds sent untold thousands of people into the streets ...
The radio show was so terrifying in its accounts of inva ...
Or, more ac

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2011-10-30 08:31:06     BBC News - The only living master of a dying martial art

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15480741

A former factory worker from the British Midlands may be... master of the centuries-old Sikh battlefield art of shas... father of four is now engaged in a full-time search for ...

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2014-11-23 14:53:23     BBC News - What phantom limbs and mirrors teach us about the brain

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15938103

In a lab in southern California scientists are curing th... incurable with little more than a mirror, and changing o... the brain in the process.
In mid-November the team at the University of California ...
That study is in its very early stages, but si

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2013-02-11 20:41:11     BBC News - Less is more: Simple living in small spaces

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-16348594

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2012-09-25 08:10:48     BBC News - Chinese families' worldly goods in Huang Qingjun's pictures

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19648095

Amid China's tumultuous dash to become rich, one man's p...
Huang Qingjun has spent nearly a decade travelling to re ...
The results offer glimpses of the utilitarian lives of m ...
But seen more closely, they also show the enormous socia ...
Elderly Chi

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2013-03-24 07:15:23     BBC News - A Point of View: Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21876120

The Turk, engraving from 1789
Continue reading the main story
Crowd-sourcing comets (LJ)
Mary queen of maths (Lisa Jardine)
... rate hoax had its own sense of genius, says Adam Gopnik.

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2013-03-28 11:25:50     BBC News - The pleasures and perils of the open-plan office

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21878739

They can be noisy and distracting or depressingly quiet,...
In the spring of 1962, a fourth-year British architectur ...
In the course of his research, Frank Duffy stumbled acro ...
"The arrangement of the desks was somehow organic," Duff ...
... The pla

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2013-09-01 21:04:56     BBC News - Abraham Maslow and the pyramid that beguiled business

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23902918

Abraham Maslow and some examples of pyramids inspired by...
Continue reading the main story
Health Check
Herrings - good to eat, not to inhale
... s satisfied, the desire to fulfil the next set kicks in.

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2013-10-12 11:46:11     BBC News - Imagine a world without shops or factories

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23990211

Continue reading the main story
"The 20th Century was about dozens of markets of million ...
Joe Kraus, dotcom pioneer

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2013-09-16 13:23:17     BBC News - Online shopping: The pensioner who started a home shopping revolution

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24091393

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2014-03-04 10:39:51     BBC News - The Indian sanitary pad revolutionary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26260978

Jugaad is an Indian word that means ingenious improvisat... scarce resources - or necessity is the mother of inventi... more grassroots innovations:

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2015-09-07 15:38:41     BBC News - The untold story of the Maidan massacre

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31359021

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2015-10-20 15:46:12     Why are placebos getting more effective? - BBC News

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-34572482

When new drugs are put on the market, clinical trials de... they perform better than inactive pills known as "placeb... that over the last 25 years the difference in effectiven... drugs and these fake ones has narrowed - but more in the... Are America

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2011-10-30 08:30:15     BBC News - About Time: The science of telling the time

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12787502

Time zones sometimes seem positively eccentric, affected... political, geographical and social changes in the real w...
But as irregular as they are, if you want to divide the ...
Our science reporter Rebecca Morelle has been finding ou ...

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2011-05-21 09:02:19     BBC News - Amondawa tribe lacks abstract idea of time, study says

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13452711

An Amazonian tribe has no abstract concept of time, say ...
The Amondawa lacks the linguistic structures that relate ...
The study, in Language and Cognition, shows that while t ...
The idea is a controversial one, and further study will ...

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2012-05-17 13:11:21     BBC News - Subways 'share universal structure', research suggests

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18072627

A study of the world's largest subway networks has revea... remarkably mathematically similar.
The layouts seem to converge over time to a similar stru ...
The study, in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface ...
It found common distributions of stat

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2013-01-28 10:15:08     BBC News - 'Quantum smell' idea gains ground

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150046

A controversial theory that the way we smell involves a ... effect has received a boost, following experiments with ...
It challenges the notion that our sense of smell depends ...
Instead, it suggests that the molecules' vibrations are ...

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2013-01-28 10:14:56     BBC News - Quantum biology: Do weird physics effects abound in nature?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21150047

Disappearing in one place and reappearing in another. Be... at once. Communicating information seemingly faster than...
This kind of weird behaviour is commonplace in dark, sti ...
Welcome to the frontier of what is called quantum biology.
It is still a

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2013-03-13 09:37:26     BBC News - Neanderthal large eyes 'caused their demise'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21759233

Neanderthals are a closely related species of human that... from around 250,000 years ago. They coexisted and intera... our species until they went extinct about 28,000 years a...
The research team explored the idea that the ancestor of ...
The humans

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2010-09-17 11:10:17     BBC News - Pigeon flies past broadband in data speed race

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11325452

Broadband is the most modern of communication means, whi... date back to Roman times.
But on Thursday, a race between the two highlighted the ...

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2011-03-02 08:56:10     BBC News - Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12241395

Harvard researcher rejects Google's 'personal attack'
Google logo Google is under investigation by the Europea ...
Continue reading the main story
Related stories
... onal attacks" to distract people from its own behaviour.

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2011-08-23 18:38:16     BBC News - When algorithms control the world

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-14306146

If you were expecting some kind warning when computers f... than us, then think again.
There will be no soothing HAL 9000-type voice informing ...
In reality, our electronic overlords are already taking ...
Their weapon of choice - the algorithm.

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2011-12-04 05:37:41     BBC News - US senator calls for answers on phone 'snooping'

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16000381

The maker of the smartphone software that triggered a sn... called to account by a US Senator.
Senator Al Franken has written to Carrier IQ asking it t ...
Mr Eckhart claimed Carrier IQ software could log everyth ...
Carrier IQ said its software helped d

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2012-01-07 10:20:05     BBC News - HTML 5 new target for cybercriminals

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16005053

Some of the threats for the coming year are lower-tech -... stickers placed over the QR codes used by firms to allow...
QR codes typically appear on posters. Once scanned with ...
Train stations, for example, use QR codes to allow passe ...
But cybercr

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2012-03-15 10:21:04     BBC News - Sony unveils 'floating interface' touchless display

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17367993

A smartphone that allows users to browse the web by hove... links they would normally touch has been unveiled by the... electronics giant Sony.
The firm describes the technology as a "floating touch" ...

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