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Sanity and dementia aren’t so much discrete states as poles of a continuum. It seems to me that slightly irrational (perhaps inappropriate is a better word) behavior would tend to make other people avoid you. And as you tend to do less well in social interactions, you would tend to avoid them. Perhaps dementia causes […]
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This article suggests a few other questions. How hungry were the monkeys? And would the student volunteers make the same choices if they were in debt and given the option of splitting $20,000 or $40,000, amounts that would potentially change their lives? If I lose $10, I don’t really feel penniless, and my wife will […]
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Coal: The cool fuel for future jets
To power faster supersonic jets, scientists are developing coal-derived fuels that can absorb heat without breaking down at high temperatures.
