An “N-back test” requires players to remember the location of a symbol presented just before (1-back), the time before last (2-back), the time before that (3-back) and so on. Researchers tested groups of children and adults who played different types of N-back test games. The studies suggest that playing games like this may actually make [...]
For 15 years, Joseph has been helping people lose weight. Most of the time, he says, they do just that, sticking to his clinic’s program and dropping excess pounds. But then, almost without exception, the weight begins to creep back. In a matter of months or years, the entire effort has come undone, and the [...]
The mystery It is like a mystery show – strong colonies disappear overnight without leaving a trace, the bodies of the victims are never found. Only in this case, it’s not fiction: It’s what’s happening to a third of commercial beehives, over a million colonies every year. Healthy communities fly off never to return. The [...]
Anonymous, a loosely organized group has attacked financial and government websites around the world, and recently hacked into Chinese government websites, ruining several of them, media reports said. Anonymous says it plans to launch further attacks on Chinese government websites in order to uncover corruption and call for human rights, a member of the group [...]
A statistician working for Target in 2002 was asked an odd question by the sales managers: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that?” As the managers explained, new parents are a retailer’s pot of gold. Most shoppers don’t buy [...]
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