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Here are this morning’s:

* Power makes hypocrites bolder and smugger — the powerful reported significantly higher lottery winnings than the low-power group, even though both groups had the same odds of winning — yet more reasons to be skeptical of those in power with a taste for moralizing

* A treatment for tinnitis — find out the main frequency of the ringing sound that the patient hears — ask the patient to select their favorite piece of music and digitally cut out the frequencies one octave on either side of this target

* Sedatives for the terminally ill — the difficult decision to administer strong sedative drugs to terminally ill patients to ease their suffering at the expensive of potentially quickening their death — medicine is always a case of balancing the positive and negatives of any treatment

* Right handers sit on the right side of the movie screen — in right-handers, the right-hemisphere is dominant for processing visual and emotional input — by sitting to the right of the screen, the film is predominantly processed by the right-hemisphere

* Should scientists be more psychotic? — how science selects for perseverance and sociability at the expense of intelligence and creativity — why are so many leading modern scientists so dull and lacking in scientific ambition?

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