World Cancer Day is an international day marked on February 4 to raise awareness of cancer and to encourage its prevention, detection, and treatment. World Cancer Day was founded by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC) to support the goals of the World Cancer Declaration, written in 2008. The primary goal of the World Cancer Day is to significantly reduce illness and death caused by cancer by 2020.
Remote Control of Behavior: Real Life Dr. Gero Hacks Your Brain
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Remote Control of Behavior: Real Life Dr. Gero Hacks Your Brain
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Why We Age and How We Can Avoid It by Aubrey de Grey (TED Talk)
Today I watched an interesting program featuring Michio Kaku about aging and immortality. One of the most interesting theories highlighted in this program was by Aubrey de Grey. This is his TED talk.
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Foxy Digest: Dopamine, Google, and Takahata
I am resurrecting my weekly feature! Because I post most of the news on my Twitter now, I’ll copy a weekly summary to my blog for those who might have missed it ð
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Dan Ariely: Are we in control of our own decisions? (TED Talk)
Behavioral economist Dan Ariely, the author of Predictably Irrational, uses classic visual illusions and his own counterintuitive (and sometimes shocking) research findings to show how we’re not as rational as we think when we make decisions.
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