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The theory that your birth-order affects your personality is entirely incorrect, but it has an interesting history. It stems from one of the most heated scientific disputes of all time, between Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. Freud, a…

Ahh, the pursuit of happiness. It is what most people are after. Some economists believe happiness is the best indicator of how healthy a society is. It seems that even though money can make you temporarily happier, once your basic needs…

Scientific advances bring about constant improvements to modern life:  supersonic jets can fly at five times the speed of sound, information can be transmitted around the world nearly instantaneously, and splitting the atom is last…

On the world stage, Australian’s are often painted as sun-tanned surfers who also live in the outback, where they avoid the most dangerous animals on earth, all to end the day with a cold Foster’s beer in hand and a shrimp on the barbie. As…

Despite our best efforts, relationships can seem like some strange form of advanced mathematics. The complicated nature of bringing two completely unique beings together into one symbiotic situation is an equation which not only doesn't…

If you find yourself confused by the debate over cannabis, let's take a second to clear things up for you: Weed is bad. How is weed bad? It just is, according to the US government, and you can't have it. Period. The End. Buy an…

Not all giant cat heads are created equal. In fact, I'm not sure that any of them should be created at all, but the one that Housetu Sato and his students at the Japan School of Wool Art created easily wins the "Most Realistic Giant Cat…

A recent study has found that a certain variation of the gene that helps you live longer has even more benefits: increased memory, great learning, decision-making and planning abilities. Having that gene is also associated with a bigger…

Creativity and insanity are not that different according to scientists. After many years of studying human’s mind, scientists from Karolinska Institute in Sweden found that the though pathways of creative people are quite similar to those…