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Mar 17, 2013

Humans are able to produce a wide variety of sounds in part because they have descended voice boxes that makes room for longer vocal tracts.Evolutionarily, this appears to have occurred before, and th ...

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Mar 16, 2013

Legal ServicesA group of lawyers refused to provide legal services to needy AARP members for $30 per hour, but when asked to do it for free, they readily agreed.Nuclear Waste StorageThe Swiss needed a ...

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Mar 10, 2013

In an attempt to get parents to pick up their kids on time, a number of Israeli day-care centers decided to impose fines on parents who show up late.Unfortunately, after the fines were imposed, the fr ...

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Mar 9, 2013

Four separate studies have found that taller people tend to earn more money, on average $789 per year for each additional inch of height.Reference:Timothy A. Judge & Daniel M. Cable "The Effect of Phy ...

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Mar 9, 2013

Obviously, it's evolutionarily advantageous for us to remind ourselves of tasks we have yet to finish, and experimentally it has long been observed that unmet goals keep popping into people's minds.Th ...

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Mar 3, 2013

Particles, such as electrons, have a property called spin which can be measured at any angle, but when measured always results in one of two answers—up or down.If a particle's spin has been measured a ...

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Mar 2, 2013

Comparing the average amount of school days per year by country, the United States contains the least amount of days, besides Belgium.243 - Japan220 - South Korea216 - Israel216 - Luxembourg200 - Neth ...

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Feb 23, 2013

Expensive hotels are frequented by business travelers who charge everything to their companies, and therefore don't care about the cost of incidentals.Inexpensive hotels are frequented by customers wh ...

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Feb 16, 2013

Studies with identical and non-identical twins show that between 50 and 80 percent of one's reported level of happiness is genetically determined.Moreover, Richard Davidson has found that happy people ...

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Feb 10, 2013

Often someone who is bone-tired will lay down in bed and flip on the TV or his laptop thinking that it would be nice to relax for a few minutes before going to sleep.And often, he'll end up catching a ...