Bilingual people always think twice. Literally. By constantly coactivating both languages through an expanded neural network, their minds tend to take slightly longer to process sounds and consider options for word retrieval. However, the momentary confusion of not being able to recall an exact word is a small price to pay for the impressive cognitive […]
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“RED ALERT! As was promised – the keys to Heaven’s Gate are here again in Ti and Do (The UFO Two) as they were in Jesus and His Father 2000 yrs. Ago,” boldly exclaims the website of Heaven’s Gate, a Christian group specializing in ufology and millenarianism. Ufology is the study of unidentified flying objects
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Four years ago, the COVID-19 pandemic stole millions of childhoods. Scientists raised concerns about the pandemic’s effects on development, education, and socialization, but the outcomes remain vastly evasive. Now, a new study has revealed that the adolescent brain experienced unusually fast maturation during lockdown — particularly in females. “Female brains aged significantly faster than male
Living aboard Aquarius, the world’s only underwater research center, isn’t glamorous. Its interior is about the size of a bus. You eat dehydrated backpacking food with tons of hot sauce because taste buds don’t work as well in the high-pressure atmosphere. There’s a constant mechanical hum and the “ticking” of snapping shrimp. But Northeastern marine
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It was dinner time on January 24, 2023, and Patrick Clancy had just left his home in Duxbury, MA to pick up some food for his wife and kids. In his 20-minute absence, his wife, Lindsay Clancy, strangled and killed each of their three children with exercise bands before cutting herself with a knife and
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Stress is an inevitable part of life, but when it becomes chronic, its effects can persist far beyond mere psychological discomfort. Chronic stress is characterized by prolonged exposure to physical, emotional, or environmental stressors. Unlike acute stress, which is the body’s natural response to a threat, chronic stress persists over an extended period of time
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Common sense, or the practical knowledge shared by the majority of the population regarding everyday matters, is ambiguous: It is difficult to know exactly why something is common sense even though it is intuitively clear. Many often assume that something clear to one person is also clear to another, but this may not be the
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Sometime around 2500 BCE, the earliest recorded dream in history was documented. This was Sumerian king Dumuzi’s dream, from the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, and was recorded in cuneiform. In this vision, the king sees subjects moving before him with various objects in their hands and on their heads, which was a perplexing story to
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At the crossroads of order and chaos, humanity has consistently sought paths leading to discovery and invention, creating equilibrium amidst perpetual disorder. Calm, in this context, embodies the rules governing human civilization—a structured order that harmonizes existence and guides our collective journey toward desired outcomes. Take Mesopotamia for instance, the earliest urban and literate civilization
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