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consider how you, yourself may be actively violating not only our personal privacy, but your physical existence with the stuff you post on social networks every single day.

Thirty-eight percent of the Facebook and Twitter users surveyed posted their holiday plans online, and 33 percent shared information about weekends away. "Coupled with the finding that an alarmingly high proportion of users are prepared to be 'friends' online with people they don't really know, this presents a serious risk to the security of people's home and contents," the insurance company said in a statement.

music may hold the key to unlocking language, according to a new study.

patients who were taught to essentially sing their words improved their verbal abilities and maintained the improvement for up to a month after the end of the therapy,

there are separate brain networks associated with vocal output, with one more engaged with speech and the other with music. With certain types of stroke, fibers on the left side of the brain that are important to the interaction of the auditory and the motor system are disrupted. But if the brain could recruit the fibers from the right side, which are more engaged with music, then the system could adapt.

George Whitesides has developed a prototype for paper "chip" technology that could be used in the developing world to cheaply diagnose deadly diseases such as HIV, malaria, tuberculosis, hepatitis and gastroenteritis.

Patients put a drop of blood on one side of the slip of paper, and on the other appears a colorful pattern in the shape of a tree, which tells medical professionals whether the person is infected with certain diseases.

hey test for multiple diseases at once. They also show how severely a person is infected rather than producing only a positive-negative reading

this system of color-coded messages is something he invented to save himself time and to organize the 100 or so e-mails he gets in a typical workday

Let people create products they'd use themselves, get those products out to the public as soon as possible, and make consumers think it's OK for things to break.

Gmail was a beta app for a while in itself and that kind of let us as a company not be too afraid about getting something out that may screw up once in a while."

A judge in Milan found three Google executives guilty Wednesday of violating Italy's privacy code

Sucherman said a public prosecutor in Milan then indicted four Google executives

for criminal defamation and violation of the country's privacy code.

While men make up the majority of abusers of street drugs, including meth, cocaine and heroin, women are just as likely to abuse prescription pills as men.

tudies show that women are more likely — in some cases, 55 percent more likely — to be prescribed an abusable prescription drug, especially narcotics and anti-anxiety drugs.

Abuse of prescription drugs has risen right along with increases in the number of prescriptions for stimulants and painkillers seen since the early '90s,

people prefer a level playing field,

Our study shows that the brain doesn’t just reflect self-interested goals, but instead, these basic reward processing regions of the brain seem to be affected by social information

humans are attuned to inequality, and we just don't like it.

Seen as an educational experience, World of Warcraft does not belabor any one perspective, but offers people experiences relating to real social issues in a manner that encourages them to reach their own conclusions.

WoW does not indoctrinate people, but it allows people with a diversity of viewpoints to explore realms that are meaningful to them.