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| h2so4hurts |
 Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:45 pm Post subject: Today's cool articles |
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Are animals stuck in time?
Dog owners, who have noticed that their four-legged friend seem equally delighted to see them after five minutes away as five hours, may wonder if animals can tell when time passes. Newly published research from The University of Western Ontario in London, Canada may bring us closer to answering that very question.
http://www.labspaces.net/view_link.php?newsID=4590&featured=1
Researchers find ancient DNA is fossilized pooh
DNA from dried human excrement recovered from Oregon's Paisley Caves is the oldest found yet in the New World -- dating to 14,300 years ago, some 1,200 years before Clovis culture -- and provides apparent genetic ties to Siberia or Asia, according to an international team of 13 scientists.
http://www.labspaces.net/view_link.php?newsID=4588&featured=1
A little anxiety pays sometimes
Anxiety gets a lot of bad press. Dwelling on the negative can lead to chronic stress and anxiety disorders and phobias, but evolutionarily speaking, anxiety holds some functional value.
http://www.labspaces.net/view_link.php?newsID=4572&featured=1
And one for the ladies:
The influence of the irrelevant - Men are easily swindled
Attractive women plus cool cars equal brisk sales for auto dealers as men snap up those cars, prompted - or so advertising theory goes - by the association. But is the human male really so easily swayed? Can the irrelevant image of an alluring female posing by the merchandise actually encourage a heterosexual man to purchase it?
http://www.labspaces.net/view_link.php?newsID=4566&featured=1
Please comment on the articles here. I don't want to steal any space from TSF, just spreading the news  Mods, PM me if you want me to stop, I like TSF too much to get booted as a 'spammer'
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| free radical |
| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm - surely anxiety was necessary evolutionarily, and with the present lack of lots and lots of really big carnivorous cats chasing us about the savannah, we substitute something else, like fear of imminent downsizing or outsourcing, to keep us alert at night. Or something like this.
The faeces article is quite exciting and I started a thread on it in History several hours back. |
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| h2so4hurts |
| Posted: Thu Apr 03, 2008 9:10 pm Post subject: |
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Really? I missed that, sorry for the dupe on the poop article. I thought it was pretty cool too.
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| Pendragon |
| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 1:26 am Post subject: Re: Today's cool articles |
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| h2so4hurts wrote: |
Please comment on the articles here. I don't want to steal any space from TSF, just spreading the news Mods, PM me if you want me to stop, I like TSF too much to get booted as a 'spammer' |
No problem  A link with a short introduction is ok (without the intro it would be moved to links). But I prefer it when you post one article at a time, so the title of the thread shows the title of the article.
Cool website btw |
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| Harold14370 |
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Can somebody explain this:
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Three groups of rats were tested in the research using three varying cues: when, how long ago or when plus how long ago.
Only the cue of "how long ago food was encountered" was used successfully by the rats.
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To a rat, what is the difference between "when" and "how long ago"? |
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| h2so4hurts |
| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 6:16 am Post subject: |
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I think they mean all they know is that they had a meal x minutes ago, not that they discovered a feast and remember where it is.
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| h2so4hurts wrote: |
| I think they mean all they know is that they had a meal x minutes ago, not that they discovered a feast and remember where it is. |
Spacetime, eh? Maybe this belongs in the cosmology section.  |
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| Posted: Fri Apr 04, 2008 8:57 am Post subject: |
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Haha, quantum rats?
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