Neuro News Nanos

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Here are this morning’s:

* East Brain, West Brain — Newsweek takes on culture and the brain — “with Chinese volunteers, the results were strikingly different … “me” circuit hummed not only when they thought whether a particular adjective described themselves, but also when they considered whether it described their mother”

* How do you tell which countries are corrupt? — look at their parking tickets around Manhattan — diplomats from high‐corruption countries accumulated significantly more unpaid parking violations

* A feminist looks at what men and women want — in terms of mate choice, women prefer older men with resources, men prefer young, fertile women with no brains — “What do we do with gender difference if it leads us to this particular place?”

* Millionaire athletes hate handing over $20 for being late — Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson’s use of psychology in his NBA locker rooms — layers are more grudging about having to pull cash out of their own pocket on the spot, than having a larger fine deducted from a paycheck, as is the usual practice

* Tiny differences in the littlest brains — girls and boys proved equally adept at crawling and risk-taking — but the mothers of the girls underestimated their daughters’ aptitude by a significant margin

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