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The Marmite effect

Seeded on Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:12 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Could Our Minds Be Tricked Into Satisfying Our Stomachs?

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:52 AM EDT (Science Daily)

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 …

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The role of grandmothers: Battling grannies

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:50 AM EDT (The Economist)

Animals explain why grandmothers evolved,

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Hong Kong's Economy: End of an experiment

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:48 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Schumpeter: Profiting from non-profits

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:47 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Online Grocers: Keep on trucking

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:46 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Cycling in cities: Shifting up a gear

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:45 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Spycraft: A tide turns

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:44 AM EDT (The Economist)

Technology used to help spies. Now it hinders them

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Germany's armed forces: At ease

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:42 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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The law of the weed

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:41 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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A special report on gambling: At war with luck

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:40 AM EDT (The Economist)

Is poker a game of skill or chance?

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A special report on gambling: Bet on the bot

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:38 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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A special report on gambling: The risk instinct

Seeded on Fri Jul 23, 2010 12:37 AM EDT (The Economist)

Why do people bet?

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Asthma Control? We've Got an App for That

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:07 AM EDT (Science Daily)

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.

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A special report on the human genome: No hiding place

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:06 AM EDT (The Economist)

Everyday genomics is coming, ready or not.

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

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:05 AM EDT (The Economist)

Individualised genomics has yet to take off.

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A special report on the human genome: Biology 2.0

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 8:04 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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BP Oil Spill: The damage done

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:57 AM EDT (The Economist)

BP counts the political and financial cost of Deepwater Horizon

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Alzheimer's disease: No end to dementia

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:56 AM EDT (The Economist)

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.

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Pixar: Planning for the sequel

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:55 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Growth in mobile applications: Apps and downs

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:54 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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The changes facing fast food: Good and hungry

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:53 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Vocational Training - Too narrow, too soon?

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:51 AM EDT (The Economist)

America's misplaced disdain for vocational education

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Chinese whispers

Seeded on Mon Jun 21, 2010 7:50 AM EDT (The Economist)

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

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Play games with your brain

Seeded on Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:06 PM EDT (Straits Times Interactive - SINGAPORE)

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

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