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People systematically overlook subtractive changes
05th January, 2025Improving objects, ideas or situations—whether a designer seeks to advance technology, a writer seeks to strengthen an argument or a manager seeks to encourage desired behaviour—requires a mental search for possible changes. This article investigates whether people are as likely to consider changes that subtract components from an object, idea or situation as they are to consider changes that add new components.
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When Subtraction Adds Value
05th January, 2025Imagining ways to introduce change is an essential skill no matter one’s occupation, role, or rank. Across a series of experiments, the authors found that people systematically overlook subtractive changes, instead following their instincts to add.
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Listening to Music May Speed Up Recovery from Surgery
07th November, 2024Review of studies shows powerful effects of music in reducing perceived pain and heart rate immediately after surgery
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Death | Open Yale Courses
03rd November, 2024This course examines a number of issues that arise once we begin to reflect on our mortality. The possibility that death may not actually be the end is considered. Also a clearer notion of what it is to die is examined. And, finally, different attitudes to death are evaluated.
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BBC Sound Effects
27th October, 2024The BBC Sound Effects Archive is available for personal, educational or research purposes. There are over 33,000 clips from across the world from the past 100 years. These include clips made by the BBC Radiophonic workshop, recordings from the Blitz in London, special effects made for BBC TV and Radio productions, as well as 15,000 recordings from the Natural History Unit archive. You can explore sounds from every continent – from the college bells ringing in Oxford to a Patagonian waterfall – or listen to a submarine klaxon or the sound of a 1969 Ford Cortina door slamming shut.
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Millions of butterflies stop in these Mexico sanctuaries. Here’s how to see them.
09th August, 2024In one of the planet’s most extraordinary natural spectacles, millions of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) gather every winter amid the fir forests of Central Mexico. They carpet the trees and paint the sky black and orange. In Mesoamerican culture, they personify the souls of departed loved ones.
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How the Continual Movement of Wildlife Regulates the Natural World
26th July, 2024Each night, as the line that separates day from night sweeps across the face of the ocean, a vast wave of life rises from the ocean’s depths behind it. Made up of an astonishing diversity of animals, this world-spanning tide travels surfaceward to feed in the safety of the dark, before retreating to the depths again at dawn.
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Introducing peanut in infancy prevents peanut allergy into adolescence
21st July, 2024Feeding children peanut products regularly from infancy to age 5 years reduced the rate of peanut allergy in adolescence by 71%, even when the children ate or avoided peanut products as desired for many years. These new findings, from a study sponsored and co-funded by the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), provide conclusive evidence that achieving long-term prevention of peanut allergy is possible through early allergen consumption.
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Why We Tell Bees About Death
02nd July, 2024The connection between apiarists and funeral rites stretches back centuries.
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A World Tour of Abandoned Amusement Parks
17th June, 2024There aren’t many places in the world that invoke pure joy like a theme park or amusement park—the rides, the food, the decor. But they don’t last forever. In many places both fun and funds run dry, leaving behind a unique kind of abandoned space, where you can almost hear the laughter and the screams in an uninhabited ruin.
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