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The Marmite effect

Habits formed early in life may affect the gains that consumers make from trade.

Could Our Minds Be Tricked Into Satisfying Our Stomachs?

Research presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior suggests that the key to losing weight could lie in manipulating our beliefs about how filling we think food will be before we eat it, suggesting that portion control is all a matter of pe …

The role of grandmothers: Battling grannies

Animals explain why grandmothers evolved,

Hong Kong's Economy: End of an experiment

The introduction of a minimum wage marks the further erosion of Hong Kong's free-market ways.

Schumpeter: Profiting from non-profits

Charities are often told they should learn from business. The reverse is also true.

Online Grocers: Keep on trucking

Internet grocery shopping is booming. If only it were profitable.

Cycling in cities: Shifting up a gear

Rent-a-bike projects are cropping up in unlikely places.

Spycraft: A tide turns

Technology used to help spies. Now it hinders them

Germany's armed forces: At ease

Conscription, a staple of Germany's post-war identity, may be on the way out

The law of the weed

California, ever a global leader in cannabis matters, may forge ahead again.

A special report on gambling: At war with luck

Is poker a game of skill or chance?

A special report on gambling: Bet on the bot

Will Polaris do for poker what Deep Blue did for chess?

A special report on gambling: The risk instinct

Why do people bet?

Asthma Control? We've Got an App for That

ScienceDaily (June 13, 2010) — An online self-management tool for people with asthma has been shown to significantly improve their ability to reduce their symptoms.

A special report on the human genome: No hiding place

Everyday genomics is coming, ready or not.

A special report on the human genome: It's personal

Individualised genomics has yet to take off.

A special report on the human genome: Biology 2.0

A decade after the human-genome project, writes Geoffrey Carr (interviewed here), biological science is poised on the edge of something wonderful

BP Oil Spill: The damage done

BP counts the political and financial cost of Deepwater Horizon

Alzheimer's disease: No end to dementia

Ten years ago people talked confidently of stopping Alzheimer's disease in its tracks. Now, they realise they have no idea how to do that.

Pixar: Planning for the sequel

How Pixar's leaders want to make their creative powerhouse outlast them.

Growth in mobile applications: Apps and downs

On their own, mobile applications may not become big moneyspinners.

The changes facing fast food: Good and hungry

More than menus need to be revamped if fast-food firms want to keep growing

Vocational Training - Too narrow, too soon?

America's misplaced disdain for vocational education

Chinese whispers

Not believing what they read in the papers, China's leaders commission their own.

Play games with your brain

LOS ANGELES - NEUROSKY wants gamers to start using their brains.

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