Neuro News Nanos

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Here are this morning’s:

* Kanye vs. Taylor — living with cultural plasticity — 97 years ago, people rioted because Stravinsky wrote the “The Rite of Spring”

* Women elected to Congress will be more effective than men — “If voters are biased against female candidates, only the most talented, hardest working female candidates will succeed in the electoral process.” — counterintuitively, not an argument for electing more women

* Rowing as a group increases pain threshold — in tests afterward, rowers coped with almost twice as much pain when they worked in a squad than when they rowed alone — researcher pins these raised thresholds on the effects of endorphins

* Eyebrows are the key to who you are — when celebrities lacked eyes, subjects could recognize them nearly 60 percent of the time — however, when celebrities lacked eyebrows, subjects recognized them only 46 percent of the time

* Is there a celebrity death trend? — no — just look at 2008