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According to Scientific American, they way girls use abstract thinking to grasp language learning skills give them an advantage over boys, who require visual aids:
The finding suggests that although linguistic information goes directly to the seat of language processing in the female brain, males use sensory machinery to do a great […]

Maybe this explains why I suck at Magic Eye
 According to an article from Wired, it does:
“As an adult, color categorization is influenced by linguistic categories. It differs as the language differs,” said Kay, who is renowned for his studies on the ways that different cultures classify colors. He cited recent research on the ability of […]

According to this article from the New York Times, there is a chance that we are merely living in someone else’s simulated fantasy:
Dr. Bostrom assumes that technological advances could produce a computer with more processing power than all the brains in the world, and that advanced humans, or “posthumans,” could run “ancestor simulations” of their […]

We’ve learned from Jurassic Park how survival of the fittest can include the changing of one species’ sex. Amphibians do it when numbers of the opposite sex are low. But what happens when they aren’t in charge of their own sex-changing? Scientists have tested the impact of this by adding synthetic […]

A scary article from the Washington Post covers an increasing outbreak of “popcorn worker’s” lung, which is causing irreversible damage to those who work in the factories that produce artificial flavoring for popcorn.
“It’s not some carcinogen where you get cancer 30 years from now or something. The people are dying right in front of you,” […]

This is an exciting find that blood types A, B and AB may be more efficiently converted to the universal donor, blood type O.
“Think of the sugar molecules attached to a blood cell as a string of pearls,” Clausen said.
“We carefully clipped away one pearl that was the ‘A’ and ‘B’ in the […]