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BBC News - How jeans conquered the world

Placebo effect works even if patients know they're getting a sham drug | Science | guardian.co.uk

Ben Goldacre: A quick fix would stop drug firms bending the truth | Comment is free | The Guardian

An Unusual Paradigm: Curious reflections on the common sense of monogamy

Article questioning the authenticity in the specifics of monogamous relationships.

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Have a crush on a coworker when away from your partner? Get butterflies in your stomach when talking to that girl from the diner you frequent when your girlfriend isn’t around? Think nothing is wrong with that picture? Think (sexual) monogamy makes sense to you if you answered affirmatively? Good news! You’d be considered completely normal, but I’d like to pose a perplexing quandary stemming from this perspective.

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Scratching an itch through the scalp to the brain : The New Yorker

Should I use cough syrup? Even if you are happy to risk possible side effects, there is no guarantee it will work.

Out-of-body experience: Master of illusion « Derren Brown Blog

It is not every day that you are separated from your body and then stabbed in the chest with a kitchen knife. Psychology experiments at the Karolinska Institute.

Placebo Buttons « You Are Not So Smart

The Misconception: All buttons placed around you do your bidding.

The Truth: Many public buttons are only there to comfort you.

The infamous CSI "Click, Enhance" is becoming a reality

Read this as well. MIT research into warping algorithms transforming low res “pixelated” images into a high res image.