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The Google Science Fair is an online science competition seeking curious minds from the four corners of the globe. Anybody and everybody between 13 and 18 can enter. All you need is an idea.

"What they found here was a negative correlation. The MORE serotonin transporters you had, the less likely you were to reject unfair offers. The authors interpret this to mean that people with lower levels of serotonin transporter had a harsher sense of "fairness", than those with higher levels of serotonin transporter, and were more inclined to reject unfair offers. Why could this be the case? The authors looked at the personalities of the individuals. You might think that people with more aggressive personalities (or at least a tendency to get offended) might be more likely to reject unfair offers, but it turned out that this wasn't the case. Instead, it was people with more peaceful personalities, but stronger measures of trust, were more likely to reject the unfair offers. The authors believe that the people with higher trustfulness had higher standards of behavior, and thus were more likely to reject unfair offers, even if the rejected ended up badly for them"

"Le président de CaptainDash, Gilles Babinet, Digital champion pour la France auprès de l'Europe, révèle l'émergence d'un nouveau phénomène : le biohacking. Une nouvelle manière en fait de faire des biotechs en mode low-cost. Une initiative proche de l'esprit open source qui a touché l'informatique et les fab-labs."

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A parody of environmental action sites, this is said to have fooled a fair number of the middle school students who saw it into thinking that they were reading about a real species.

""You'll see I wear only gray or blue suits," he said. "I'm trying to pare down decisions. I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make." He mentioned research that shows the simple act of making decisions degrades one's ability to make further decisions. It's why shopping is so exhausting. "You need to focus your decision-making energy. You need to routinize yourself. You can't be going through the day distracted by trivia." The self-discipline he believes is required to do the job well comes at a high price. "You can't wander around," he said. "It's much harder to be surprised. You don't have those moments of serendipity."

"Der Entwicklungspsychologe Michael Tomasello hat die Kooperation bei Menschen und anderen Primaten studiert. Er hat einiges zu sagen über den Zusammenhalt in Zeiten der Finanzkrise und des Klimawandels... Es würde uns leichtfallen, etwa beim Klimaschutz zu einer Lösung zu kommen, wenn die Erde von Invasoren aus dem Weltall bedroht werden würde. In diesem Fall verstünden wir uns leicht als ein Jagdtrupp mit gemeinsamen Interessen. Aber bei den aktuellen Problemen können wir nicht auf andere deuten, die an allem schuld sind. Wir haben uns die Suppe selbst eingebrockt."