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Coronavirus: How do you decide who gets treated?
Pandemics bring ethical dilemmas into sharp, terrible focus. Around the world, hospitals have been unable to cope with the millions who need treatment for coronavirus. China created makes...
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What happened to all the hype about Universal Basic Income?
Three years ago, it was hard to avoid all the Universal Basic Income (UBI) trials. First Finland announced that it would launch a UBI experiment, then Switzerland voted on (but rejected) ...
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This AI can spot fake robbery reports
There’s no foolproof way to know if someone’s verbally telling lies, but scientists have developed a tool that seems remarkably accurate at judging written falsehoods. Using machine learn...
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基因决定同理心
人们常将孩子的情感缺陷归罪于父母。在同理心这一问题上，事实证明父母的确负有部分责任。科学家对46861个人进行了同理心研究，在个人基因检测公司23andMe的协助下分析了他们的DNA，结果发现遗传因素恰恰是人们在理解他人情感上存在差异的一大重要原因。
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Your ability to empathise is determined by your genes
Parents are used to getting the blame for their children’s emotional defects. When it comes to empathy, it turns out they are partly responsible. Scientists studied the empathy of 46,861 ...
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Scientists have created a drug that mimicks some of the health benefits of exercise
Researchers have made the breakthrough of couch potatoes’ dreams with a new drug that mimics some of the most important effects of exercise. Scientists from Deakin University in Melbourne...
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The most educated are divided when it comes to climate change. This is why
Many people concerned about climate change assume that eventually, the growing weight of facts will persuade those who dismiss humans’ role in the problem to think again. Surely, the theo...
ウェルビーイングとメンタルヘルス
着眼当下的同时，不能忘掉展望未来
二十多年来，许多的咨询专栏、自助图书和放松的灵歌都在颂扬现在生活的美德。这些生活的心灵鸡汤在twitter上不断地发出，但却使我们错过了去欣赏真实的有纪念意义的时刻。 虽然这很有意义，但是提供的指导性也是有限的。毕竟就像没人会每天都再纽约的地铁里，只享受当下生活的快乐只能隐居。而神经学表明区分人类和其他物种的特征是人类的精神能使我们存活到未来，尽管这种说法很老旧。 加...
ウェルビーイングとメンタルヘルス
Mentally time-travelling is what makes us human, so don't get stuck in the present
There are plenty of advice columns, self-help books, and loosely spiritual twenty-somethings devoted to extolling the virtues of living in the present. The advice is intended as an antido...
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Why wasting your time could be the key to productivity
There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any tim...
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“沉迷工作，不可自拔”会对你的精神健康产生什么样的影响？
“沉迷工作”在有些地方长期以来可能都与勤奋敬业的工作精神联系在一起，但这可能会发展成为完全的精神成瘾。挪威一项近期发表的研究调查了16425名成年人，发现工作狂显现出精神疾病症状的几率明显高于一般人。
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Scientists prove link between being a workaholic and your mental health
Workaholism, long-associated in some parts of the world with an industrious work ethic, can develop into a full-blown psychological addiction. Troublingly, a recently published study of 1...
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Our personalities change beyond recognition from 14 to 77
Look at a photo of yourself as a teenager and, mistaken fashion choices aside, it’s likely you see traces of the same person with the same personality quirks as you are today. But whether...
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How to be more authentic, according to a psychology professor
We’re surrounded by messages of authenticity that seem, somehow, inauthentic. Instagram photos boast #nofilter and food companies promise to serve up "real" ingredients, whatever that mig...
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Artificial Intelligence has written a pop song
We already know that artificial intelligence systems can work in law firms and beat the world champion at a game of Go. Now it turns out that AI can write some pretty good pop songs, too.