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  1. Road to Eureka!

    Researchers are beginning to identify neural components of insightful problem solving, though no scientific consensus exists on how the brain mediates "light-bulb" or "Aha!" moments.

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  2. Humans

    Letters from the March 22, 2008, issue of Science News

    The price of water In reference to the article “Going Down: Climate change, water use threaten Lake Mead” (SN: 2/23/08, p. 115), scarcity requires society to allocate. Usually markets do a better job than law at allocating efficiently and fairly. Lake Mead could remain full to the brim regardless of pending climate change. The quoted […]

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  3. Math

    Spoil-Proofing Elections

    The only way to ensure that the person the voters prefer walks away the winner, mathematicians say, is to fundamentally change voting procedures.