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Botox May Diminish The Experience Of Emotion by Mo (Neurophilosophy): Our feeling of emotion is not just in the brain but is distributed across our body, in our muscles; because Botox paralyses the muscles, in a very real way, people who get injections lose a little bit of their emotion. [via]
The Professor, His Wife, And The Secret, Savage Book Reviews On Amazon by Caroline Davies (The Guardian): Turns out that the anonymous troll trashing your book on Amazon could be a law professor at Cambridge university.
Two AI Pioneers, Two Bizarre Suicides: What Really Happened? by David Kushner (Wired): Why did two of the leading lights of artificial intelligence work - who were implacable arch-enemies - commit suicide within a month of each other, the same way?
Laboratory Life by Olivia Judson (New York Times): Animal researchers and geneticists often use particular species, such as the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster, in the lab. But these species have been bred in the lab so long that they often are quite different genetically to the species in the wild, through sheer evolution and adaptation to a new environment.
7 Simple Mind Hacks To Ace A Test (Rasmussen College): 7 pieces of advice that may be useful for going well in your next exam…[via]
The TV Deal The NBA Wishes It Had Not Made by Jonathan Abrams (LA Times): Despite the best contract lawyers in the US trying to find a way to weasel out of it, Ozzie and Dan Silna have now made US$168 million out of signing a contract with the NBA and then doing nothing. [via]
