Key brain region was 'recycled' as humans developed the ability to readA new study offers evidence that the brain's inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic processing -- the ability to recognize written letters and words.....
Consumers' brains are wired to ignore you – here's what you can do about it6.75 is the amount of calories your brain will consume over the next five minutes whilst you read this article.
Do you ever think about it? As humans, when we pay attention, we are literally paying for it. We are paying with biological resources. And the scary thing is, human brains only have rough....
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Keyword blocking, context and Covid-19: time for brands and adtech to accentuate the positiveIn the context of the Covid-19 outbreak, an overreliance on 'negative' and 'blunt' brand safety techniques - such as keyword blocking - is costing advertisers and publishers heavily.
Recent data from Newsworks estimates that news publishers will lose somewhere in the region of £50m in online ads f....
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Watch Bare-Faced Rihanna Reveal Her Best Skincare TipsForget love--Rihanna has skincare on the brain.
Following the launch of her highly anticipated Fenty Skin product line, the world-famous multihyphenate took fans behind the scenes for a.......
Watch the highlights from Donald Trump's disastrous interview with AxiosScreenshot/Axios via HBO
President Donald Trump's interview with Axios on Monday evening tackled many issues, from the rising coronavirus death toll to the Black Lives Matter protests.
Snippets of the 37-minute interview that originally aired on HBO have been trending on Twitter.
Many have been....
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Beirut Explosion Rocks City, Officials Fear Many CasualtiesA massive explosion rocked the city of Beirut today, as seen in videos posted across social media. BBC reported that the blast happened in the port area of the city and that authorities “fear many casualties.” The cause of the explosion has not been confirmed.
Lebanon’s health m....
Trump mispronounces Yosemite National Park as 'yo-Semite' twice in White House speechAP Photo/Alex Brandon
During a speech following the signing of "The Great American Outdoors Act" at the White House on Tuesday, President Donald Trump twice pronounced Yosemite as "yo-Semite."
Yosemite is one of the country's most famous and beloved national parks and was visited by 4.5 million ....
An averted glance gives a glimpse of the mind behind the eyesShakespeare once wrote that the 'eyes are the window to your soul.' But scientists have found it challenging to peer into the brain to see how it derives meaning from a look into another's eyes. Psychologists have now found a new way to study this mystery by examining the universal and embarrassing ....
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Doubt cast on wisdom of targeting 'bad' cholesterol to curb heart disease riskSetting targets for 'bad' (LDL) cholesterol levels to ward off heart disease and death in those at risk might seem intuitive, but decades of research have failed to show any consistent benefit for this approach, reveals an analysis of the available data.....
Energy demands limit our brains' information processing capacityOur brains have an upper limit on how much they can process at once due to a constant but limited energy supply, according to a new study using a brain imaging method that measures cellular metabolism.....
'It is what it is': Trump dismisses the rising coronavirus death toll in the United StatesScreenshot via Axios on HBO
President Trump dismissed the mounting death toll from COVID-19 in the United States, telling Axios' Jonathan Swan that "it is what it is" in an interview that aired Monday evening on HBO.
Swan challenged Trump's repeated assertions that the COVID-19 pandemic is....
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Balabhaskar's death: CBI records wife's statementThiruvananthapuram: The team of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probing the death of violinist Balabhaskardeath arrived at the residence of his wife Lakshmi here on Tuesday to record her statement. According to reports, the CBI officials reached Lakshmi's residence around 5.30 pm. Her statemen....
Continuing the surge, Kerala records 1,083 Covid cases on Tuesday; 902 through contactThiruvananthapuram: Kerala on Tuesday reported 1,083 cases of Covid-19. Among the new patients, 902 contracted the virus through contact, said a press statement from the office of Health Minister KK Shailaja. Infection source of 71 patients is unknown. 51 had returned from abroad while 64 returned ....
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Not all patient deaths are due to Covid; govt not hiding any info, says Health MinisterThiruvananthapuram: Health Minister K K Shailaja on Tuesday said that the death of Covid patients in the state can't always be attributed to the virus infection. The state government confirms Covid deaths as per the international guidelines issued. Covid deaths are confirmed after detailed examinat....
COVID-19 deaths in Yemen reach 500The number of people who have died in Yemen after contracting the new coronavirus has reached 500, according to a Reuters tally, although aid organisations say the death toll is probably much higher.....
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The number of British people emigrating to the EU has risen 30% since the Brexit voteThiago Prudencio/picture alliance via Getty Images
The number of Brits emigrating to European countries has risen by 30% since the Brexit vote in 2016.
A new study found that migration from the UK to EU countries rose from 56,382 people per year between 2008 to 2015, to 73,642 a year between 201....
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Second NNPC ex-GMD dies after brief illness- The NNPC is mourning the death of Dr. Joseph Thlama Dawha, a former GMD of the corporation- Dawha sadly passed away after a brief....
Starved Pakistan fans finally get live cricket backOn March 15, when Quetta Gladiators' Azam Khan had paddled Karachi Kings' Arshad Iqbal over square leg for a four, few had thought that it would be the final piece of cricket action involving national players for quite some time.
A virus, a pandemic and a lockdown later, we stand again on the cus....
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How interplanetary migration could impact human evolutionThe future of human evolution in space will be driven by challenges both similar — and different — to those that have guided our development for countless generations. Since our species, Homo sapiens, first evolved in Africa roughly 315,000 years ago, we haven't changed much when it comes to phy....
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Minister, senior officials may face court proceedings over lions' death in IslamabadISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) intends to proceed against Minister for Climate Change Zartaj Gul, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister Malik Amin Aslam, secretary of the ministry and officials of Islamabad Wildlife Management Board (IWMB) for violating the court orders related to the s....
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Death of migrant workers: Police prevented from removing bodies of victimsPalakkad: Migrant workers at Kanjikode have staged a protest in connection with the death of 3 fellow workers on Monday. They have refused to hand over the body of Jharkhand native Hari Om, who is one of the victims. Alleging that the death was a murder, migrant workers demanded a compensation of Rs....
Three top lawyers to assist IHC in Indian spy caseISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Monday appointed leading lawyers as amici curiae in Indian spy Kulbhushan Jadhav case and asked Attorney General for Pakistan Khalid Jawed Khan to once again seek response from the Indian government and the spy regarding appointment of counsel for his....
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Locals protest over death of 3 migrant labourers in KanjikodePalakkad: Three migrant labourers were found dead at Kanjikkode here. The deceased were identified as Jharkhand native Hari Om (26), Kanhai and Aravind Kumar. The incident took place on Monday at 10.30 pm. The bodies were found near the railway track close to the IIT campus in Kanjikode. Kasaba CI N....
Leaked police bodycam video shows new details of George Floyd's fatal arrestIn partial footage obtained by the Daily Mail from the body cameras worn by two of the now-former Minneapolis police officers involved in the arrest of George Floyd, a panicked Floyd can be seen struggling with officers while in the back of a squad car in the minutes before his death, saying, "I can....
Torrential rainfall that has been battering the country for the last three days have caused at least six deaths on Monday and serious damage to South Korea. Eum Ji-young reports. Torrential rain....
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The CDC is trying to paint a dire picture of what might happen if schools don't reopenWhen it comes to the contentious debate over whether we should be reopening schools this fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, White House health advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci says we definitely should reopen and push for in-person classroom learning.
CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield concurs, argui....
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Kids getting caught in crossfire as US gun violence surgesCHICAGO (AP) — July in Chicago ended as it began: Mourning the death of a child whose only mistake was venturing outside to play when someone armed with a gun came to the neighborhood hunting for an enemy.
On Monday, two days after his department released statistics that revealed the month had ....
Funtua strengthened my govt in so many ways -BuhariPresident Muhammadu Buhari says Ismaila Isa Funtua, his late
associate, was of great assistance to his government.
In a letter to Funtua's family, Buhari described his death
as....
