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Psychologists Demonstrate Simplicity Of Working Memory
A mind is a terrible thing to waste, but humans may have even less to work with than previously thought.
University of Missouri researchers found that the average person can keep just three or four things in their “working memory” or conscious mind at one time.
This finding may lead to better ways to assess and help people with attention-deficit and focus difficulties, improve classroom performance and enhance test scores.
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Man Arrested After Trying To Fill Up Imaginary Car
A man was arrested at a Kentucky gas station after he was reported to be trying to pump fuel into an imaginary car.
According to reports, Louisville police found Joshua L. Moore at the petrol station, where workers alleged he had been trying to pump petrol into a car that wasn’t there, in the early hours of Sunday morning. The officers immediately noted what appeared to be a strong smell of marijuana.
After being arrested, Moore was found to have ‘two large baggies’ of marijuana on his person, as well as an impressive amount of ecstasy.
According to authorities, he also had a mobile phone and a large amount of money, which they take as evidence that he was involved in trafficking the drugs.
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Neanderthals Speak Again After 30,000 Years
Using 50,000-year-old fossils from France and a computer synthesizer, McCarthy’s team has generated a recording of how a Neanderthal would pronounce the letter “e.”
The brief recording doesn’t sound like any letter in modern languages, but McCarthy says that’s because Neanderthals lacked the “quantal vowels” modern humans use.
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What Are The Odds Of Finding Extraterrestrial Intelligent Life?
Is there anybody out there? Probably not, according to a scientist from the University of East Anglia.
A mathematical model produced by Prof Andrew Watson suggests that the odds of finding new life on other Earth-like planets are low, given the time it has taken for beings such as humans to evolve and the remaining life span of Earth.
Structurally complex and intelligent life evolved late on Earth and it has already been suggested that this process might be governed by a small number of very difficult evolutionary steps.
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Covini C6W: Six Wheeled Sports Car
At first glance it looks like it’s just somebody having a little fun with Photoshop, but this is for real: a new six-wheeled sports car from Italian automaker Covini Engineering called the C6W that they’re claiming is the first of its kind. Why the extra wheels? Besides the usual macho stuff of feeling superior to all the losers with four-wheeled cars, having four wheels in the front is supposed to improve traction by reducing lift and make it easier to take corners.
Cute Hamster kills Man
A woman is suing a pet shop chain after her husband died of a hamster virus.
Nancy Magee, from the US, claims PetSmart Inc should have warned customers the rodents carry lymphocytic choriomeningitis, a viral infection of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord.
Two other people died of the virus in 2005 after receiving infected organs from the same woman as her husband, Thomas, 54.
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World's Oldest Living Tree Discovered In Sweden
The world’s oldest recorded tree is a 9,550 year old spruce in the Dalarna province of Sweden.
The spruce tree has shown to be a tenacious survivor that has endured by growing between erect trees and smaller bushes in pace with the dramatic climate changes over time.
For many years the spruce tree has been regarded as a relative newcomer in the Swedish mountain region. “Our results have shown the complete opposite, that the spruce is one of the oldest known trees in the mountain range,” says Leif Kullman, Professor of Physical Geography at Umeå University.
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Getting Wired For Terahertz Computing
University of Utah engineers took an early step toward building superfast computers that run on far-infrared light instead of electricity: They made the equivalent of wires that carried and bent this form of light, also known as terahertz radiation, which is the last unexploited portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
“We have taken a first step to making circuits that can harness or guide terahertz radiation,” says Ajay Nahata, study leader and associate professor of electrical and computer engineering.
“Eventually - in a minimum of 10 years - this will allow the development of superfast circuits, computers and communications.”
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