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This NYtimes article talks about what it means to be a being. How can we define that? Should chimpanzees be given equal liberty and rights as their human care taker?

This article talks about what your handwriting, something that we consider unconscious and automatic, says about your emotions, personality, and even health.

This article shows how racial profiling is still relevant to today's society when a African American man tried to purchase a belt from Barney's New York. The man was stopped a few blocks down from the shop, being accused of paying with an unauthorized card. He was told his identification was false and there was no way he could have afforded such an expensive purchase. This reminded me of Blink when Malcolm Gladwell introduced this idea of thin slicing and the intuition and how sometimes one's first thoughts can be wrong. One example that this connected to in Blink was the car salesman, who had to get rid of his initial thoughts about someone and be more open to the buyer and decide who the person is before he made judgements about the buyer.

This article talks about the new way to teach art to young kids- letting them see it for themselves and learning how to appreciate it. Teachers aim to get kids to understand why they connect to art or not and what makes them appreciate it more.

This article discusses the idea that the majority of today's high school students are literalists, not having an appreciation or tolerance for most art. This is a concern in some circles, as many experts believe that exposure to the arts is likely to increase a student's knowledge or sophistication.

An interesting article about what the arts can teach children and how it can effect who they are. It's a very interesting perspective.

This article talked about how the brain sometimes confuses dishonesty for the truth when a person is trying to present themselves impressively

Scientists from the University of Utah release research that there is no evidence from brain imaging that people are either left-brained or right-brained.

The idea that we choose our mates based on their genes isn't news, but researchers in San Diego now have evidence that we might also be choosing our friends by their genetic endowment as well.

This is part of a special series about great rivalries: between tech titans, sports franchises, and even dinosaur hunters. Read about the series here. The inspired Pepsi Challenge marketing campaign of the 1980s was my childhood introduction to one of the fundamentals of scientific inquiry: the double-blind experiment. In a world beset...

"young athletes find playing for mastery-oriented coaches is far more important and has a bigger impact on them than a team's win-loss record." Why do we, as a society, place such value on winning?

The Golden Rule (usually defined as "One should treat others as one would like to be treated") is attractive to people as a guiding principle for ethical conduct. However I feel that in our diverse, modern world, it is less than ideal.

This article is interesting and says that grades are much less important than people make them out to be

This article was interesting and talked about macro-traits that humans struggle to articulate, but that we observe.