The Dyatlov Pass Incident - See What Really Happend at Dyatlov Pass. A brief history of conspiracy theories. How old memories fade away. If you got beat up by a bully on your walk home from school every day, you would probably become very afraid of the spot where you usually met him. However, if the bully moved out of town, you would gradually cease to fear that area. Neuroscientists call this phenomenon “memory extinction”: Conditioned responses fade away as older memories are replaced with new experiences. A new study from MIT reveals a gene that is critical to the process of memory extinction. Enhancing the activity of this gene, known as Tet1, might benefit people with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) by making it easier to replace fearful memories with more positive associations, says Li-Huei Tsai, director of MIT’s Picower Institute for Learning and Memory.
The Tet1 gene appears to control a small group of other genes necessary for memory extinction. The paper’s lead authors are Andrii Rudenko, a postdoc at the Picower Institute, and Meelad Dawlaty, a postdoc at the Whitehead Institute. New and old memories. Mind-Control Parasite Kills Mice's Fear of Cats Permanently. A fair amount of research has taken place on Toxoplasma gondii, the bizarre parasite that makes mice unafraid of cats, and the latest chapter is a strange one. A new study shows that even a brief infection with a weakened form of the protozoan caused mice to permanently lose their innate fear of cats.
The protozoan is known to cause this change in mice after a lingering infection and after it produces cysts in the mouse brain, according to the study, published online Sept. 18 in the journal PLOS ONE. But until now scientists didn't know this apparently long-lasting change could occur after only a short infection, and without development of cysts and brain inflammation. The study also showed the change occurred with weakened forms of all three major variants of the protozoa found in North America. [The 10 Most Diabolical & Disgusting Parasites] Toxoplasma gondii is found throughout the world and infects a large number of mammals, including humans. We're Having More Hook Ups, But The Exact Same Amount of Sex. Researchers are trying to put an end to all those pesky trend pieces. There is some news about “hookup culture!”
Wait, please don’t roll your eyes and close this tab. We aren’t linking to another clueless, leering foray into the world of kids today by a middle-aged writer employed by a legacy media company. (Those aren’t even fun to troll in the comments section anymore.) We’re presenting science! At last month’s annual American Sociological Association conference, researchers who have been prying into their undergraduate students’ sex lives gave previews of two as-yet unpublished studies. First up, a set of sociologists working out of the University of Portland compared survey results from two sets of cohorts, one of which attended college during some point from 1988 to 1996 and the other of which was on campus between 2002 and 2010.
Secondly, researchers from three southern universities found that a majority of students were against the idea of concluding a first date with sex. Le site #1 des relations mutuellement avantageuses. The Sugar Daddy Scholarship. Elliot is 45, gainfully employed, lonesome, and looking for a pretty young college girl to spend money on. Ideally he would serve as her benefactor and mentor; she would express gratitude through sexual favors. At the very least she’d accompany him to dinner on a Saturday night and, if she understood the arrangement, give him a peek of those lace knickers he bought her. If all went well between the sheets, he’d even offer to pay her college tuition. Elliot is fictional, but there are more than two million men like him registered as “sugar daddies” on the dating website SeekingArrangement, many of whom are seeking out cash-strapped college students.
"Women hold 60 percent of bachelor degrees and drop out at a lower rate because they are less discouraged by financial burden compared to men," according to promotional material from SeekingArrangement. But Wade is trying to upend what he sees as the myths of sugar daddydom. Près de la moitié des adultes ne savent pas lire | Annie Mathieu. (Québec) Près de la moitié, soit 49 %, des Québécois âgés de 16 à 65 ans sont incapables de lire la posologie d'un médicament, comprendre un article de journal ou décrypter les ingrédients inscrits sur une boîte de céréales. Devant ce constat alarmant, le Conseil supérieur de l'éducation demande au gouvernement d'inscrire la problématique du faible taux de littératie adulte au coeur de ses priorités.
«C'est énorme!» S'exclame le président du Conseil, Claude Lessard. Selon lui, même si cette statistique provient de l'Enquête internationale sur l'alphabétisation et les compétences des adultes réalisée en 2003, elle est toujours juste et doit préoccuper la société au même titre que le décrochage scolaire. Les causes du faible taux de littératie adulte sont multiples. Selon l'avis de l'organisme rendu public aujourd'hui, l'école est en partie responsable. Transformation du monde du travail. Ohio State students find secret roommate in their home. An incredibly odd story about off-campus housing at Ohio State University is rightfully earning attention and a growing number of web hits in Buckeye country and beyond.
According to The Lantern, OSU's campus newspaper, a group of male students leasing a typical fixer-upper home near the school were also unknowingly rooming with "some random guy" — in their basement. As Lantern assistant multimedia editor Chelsea Spears reports, the students initially joked about having a ghost when they found the doors to their cupboards, ovens and microwaves open without explanation.
A subsequent search of the home's basement brought their tale into horror movie territory. Specifically, the students stumbled across a locked door that was not shielding a series of "weird noises like dings and alarms" coming from behind it. "The roommates thought a locked door in the basement led to a utility closet," Lantern staffer Kathleen Martini confirms. Nope. The Rise of Microporn: DIY Dirty Movies for an ADD Era. David is a 21-year-old guy from London who listens to Kendrick Lamar, obsessively watches the British TV drama Top Boy, and tweets about grades and drugs.
Whenever he feels like it, he pulls down his pants, points his phone toward his crotch, and tapes himself masturbating for six seconds. He publishes the results on Vine, a microvideo app dedicated to the quick and easy sharing of Internet catnip: pets acting cute, skateboarders falling down, and — inevitably — porn. In the first eleven days after David joined Vine, he racked up 47 explicit videos, 50 followers who liked what they saw, and — he says — three women who wanted to meet up with him in real life. Unlike a professional porn star, David never needed to show up on set, ejaculate on cue, or show his face. All he had to do was hold his penis in one hand and his phone in the other.
He didn’t even need to do it for that long. On Vine, he can shoot and release a video in under a minute. Damascus Nightclub Patrons Try To Dance Away The Pain Of Conflict As Syria's War Rages On (PHOTOS) When night falls in Damascus, gaggles of determined revellers still head out on the town seeking to drown out the thunder of outgoing artillery fire with the boom of music. The shells are raining down on suspected rebel positions in suburbs just a few kilometres (miles) away but, while most people lock themselves fearfully in their homes, some head out to try to forget the war on their doorstep. "I come here for a change of atmosphere," says Mohammad, a 25-year-old car salesman, who has clearly had a drink or three.
"There is joy here," he says of the nightclub in the upscale Shaalan neighbourhood, where the barman juggles bottles of spirits. "I want to live, I don't want to hear any more bad news. " On the dance floor, customers shake to a track popular among supporters of President Bashar al-Assad's regime.
"Don't ask me how or why, it's the army that protects us," the lyric goes. "If the United States attacks us, I'm sure our army will defend us," he added. "We stay open until 2:00 am. Food Helmet Sustains You With Algae. One person’s head-mounted torture device may be another person’s idea of food. Case in point: the Algaculture Symbiosis Suit. No, the above photo is not a movie still from the next installment of the “Saw” franchise. It’s a symbiosis suit, designed by artists Michael Burton and Michiko Nitta (known as Burton Nitta), that grows food while wearers go about their daily business.
A series of tubes, placed in front of the mouth, capture carbon dioxide and feed it to a constantly-growing population of suit-embedded algae. PHOTOS: 10 Wild Ways To Travel In The Future The suit debuted last year outside the Victoria and Albert Museum. Sounds crazy, right? “Algaculture designs a new symbiotic relationship between humans and algae. BLOG: Bacteria Boost Sunscreen “As such, we will be symbionts (meaning that both entities entirely depend on each other for survival), entering into a mutually beneficial relationship with the algae.” via Inhabitat Credit: Burton Nitta. Do Animals Cry? In a questionnaire on the Dognition site, 72 percent of owners reported that their dog suffers from mild to extreme separation anxiety, likely similar to what the elephant calf felt. "This anxiety is manifested as whimpering, whining and howling when the dog is separated from a loved one," Hare said.
"So dogs may not cry with tears, but they certainly can cry with vocalizations to say they are anxious, stressed or lonely. " Over half of the owners also reported that their dogs actively try to comfort or console them when they are sad and weeping, so the dogs seem to understand the person is in distress. At such times, a dog might rest its head on the owner's lap or nuzzle the individual.
In each case, the dog is making comforting physical contact -- the same kind that a human baby or elephant calf is hard-wired to crave. Human hugging might be akin to a dog nuzzle or a mother elephant using its trunk to caress a calf. "Are those tears of sorrow? " Vladimir Putin, the Richest Man on Earth. If you've ever wondered about the size of Russian President Vladimir Putin's private fortune, allow me to offer a clue: He doesn’t need one. From time to time, Western journalists and bloggers speculate about whether Putin is one of the world's richest men or just its wealthiest political leader.
Look up "Putin's personal fortune" on Google, and you'll find estimates of between $40 billion and $70 billion. The media reports, which often cite one another, ultimately tend to rely on one primary source: a November 2007 interview given by a prominent member of Moscow's chattering classes, Stanislav Belkovsky, to the German daily Die Welt. In the interview, he claimed that Putin "controlled" 37 percent of the oil company Surgutneftegaz and 4.5 percent of natural gas monopoly Gazprom. "And these numbers are substantiated? " Interviewers regularly ask Belkovsky about the $40 billion number. Belkovsky's game may be mainly literary. Putin flatly denied the reports.
Let Your Fingers Do the Seeing. Quick – name the five senses. Most people readily list sight, taste, hearing, and smell. And then pause before remembering: touch. "Touch is probably our most underrated sense," said psychologist Martin Arvidsson of Stockhom University in Sweden, whose research team has found that humans can perceive even smaller changes in surfaces than previously believed. Touch matters, Arvidsson said. He points to the importance of touch in understanding others: "Babies explore the world through touch and find comfort in human contact. In a study published in today's Scientific Reports, the researchers report that humans can perceive miniscule changes in surfaces—down to a microscopic 13 nanometers, about the width of a human hair. What happens when you touch something? According to Mark Rutland, another researcher in the study and a professor at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, touch is a sensation that relies on a combination of friction and vibrations.
The results? Not really. The Strangest and Most Tragic Ghost Towns from Around the World. The problem with China's ghost towns is that everything is too expensive, many apartments costing more than the average Chinese person will make in their lives. They often kick out low-income people in an area, then build expensive apartments that those people couldn't afford to live in. Nobody wants to build a town a poor person could afford to live in. So they keep building cities for millions of rich people who don't exist.
[checks pockets] "Nah... " [ looks under rock] "Nope; I can't seem to find their logic. " [scratches head] "I think the Chinese misplaced it. " [looks under furniture] "I give-up," I blurt with hands held high in the air. I we owned a grocery store and some produce wasn't selling, I would discount it before it went bad. Let me rephrase that... Yet...they don't exist, yet. China is preparing for an exodus - what will effectively be the opposite of our "urban sprawl" as newer generations want to move from the countryside to the city. 'Hyper Empathy' From Brain Surgery. In a strange case, a woman developed "hyper empathy" after having a part of her brain called the amygdala removed in an effort to treat her severe epilepsy, according to a report of her case.
Empathy is the ability to recognize another person's emotions. The case was especially unusual because the amygdala is involved in recognizing emotions, and removing it would be expected to make it harder rather than easier for a person to read others' emotions, according to the researchers involved in her case. During the woman's surgery, doctors removed parts of her temporal lobe, including the amygdala, from one side of the brain. The surgery is a common treatment for people with severe forms of temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) who don't respond to medication.
After the surgery, the seizures she had suffered multiple times a day stopped. She also described an increased ability to decode others' mental states, including their emotions, the researchers said. Kinds of empathy The missing amygdala. Did the NSA secretly make a major math breakthrough? In a recent story about the U.S. National Security Agency’s controversial Internet surveillance operations, the New York Times reported that “the agency has circumvented or cracked much of the encryption, or digital scrambling, that guards global commerce and banking systems.”
The bolding is mine, because if in fact the agency did crack the encryption schemes used for bank transactions (the Times is somewhat unclear on that point), then in doing so it may have solved a math problem that has long puzzled cryptographers and number theorists alike. The problem in question is that of integer factorization. It has been shown that every integer (e.g. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5...) can be written as the product of prime numbers. To review, a number is said to be prime if it is divisible only by itself and 1. (The first 10 prime numbers are 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, and 29.) To date, there is no known shortcut to quickly factor large integers into primes. First, the public key: Now for the private key: The Social Life of Genes: Shaping Your Molecular Composition. 'Black Jesus' murder: Leader of 6,000-strong cannibal rape cult hacked to death by villagers in Papua New Guinea jungle after killing yet again - Asia - World. What Exactly Is Deja Vu? Symmetry in the universe: Physics says you shouldn’t exist.
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