PART 1 �x�~���  01 A Cube That Can Walk…………………………………………………………………………………………………2  02 Memory Appears Susceptible to Eradication of Fear Responses ………………………………………………………5  03 Online Privacy: How to Disappear……………………………………………………………………………………...9  04 Light Pollution May Cause Early Spring in Cities…………………………………………………………………….14  05 Solar Power Could Serve All of the World’s Energy Needs …………………………………………………………..17  06 It’s No Better to Put Your Child Into a Gifted Program……………………………………………………………….21  07 Information Superhighway…………………………………………………………………………………………….25  08 How to Live Longer: Find Your Purpose in Life………………………………………………………………………29  09 Does Greeness Affect Health?........................................................................................................................................32  10 Poverty Will Never Die in American Society?...............................................................................................................36  11 Various Recreation Tastes……………………………………………………………………………………………...40  12 Eating in Antarctica……………………………………………………………………………………………………44  13 Einstein and Hilbert……………………………………………………………………………………………………48  14 Does Creative Intelligence Matter?................................................................................................................................52  15 Physicians Integrate Yoga Into Medical Practice………………………………………………………………………56  16 A New Study Shows Benefit of Playing Video Games for Kids………………………………………………………59  17 Texting Makes You Stupid……………………………………………………………………………………………..63  18 Smoking: Weight Watchers…………………………………………………………………………………………….67  19 Big in Norway: Slow TV………………………………………………………………………………………………71  20 Replacing Food: An Engineer’s Approach to Body Fuel………………………………………………………………74 PART 2 �Lƪ��x  01 The Amazon Mystery………………………………………………………………………………………………….80  02 Too Much Healthcare………………………………………………………………………………………………….88  03 The Health Risks of Small Apartments ………………………………………………………………………………..96  04 Should Medical School Be Shortened to Three Years?................................................................................................104  05 Raising the Minimum Wage Reduces Poverty……………………………………………………………………….112  06 Why Do You Go to College?........................................................................................................................................120  07 Sardines Will Abandon You……………………………………………………………………………………….….128  08 What America Won in the “War on Poverty”?..............................................................................................................136  09 The Secret of Obesity…………………………………………………………………………………………………143  10 Food Doesn’t Have to Wear Makeup…………………………………………………………………………………150  11 Don’t Worry, Be Happy…………………………………………………………………………………………….…158  12 Are Modern Kids Coddled? …………………………………………………………………………………….……166  13 The Morality Test…………………………………………………………………………………………………..…173  14 Eating Our Young………………………………………………………………………………………………..……182  15 The Drugs Don’t Work……………………………………………………………………………………..…………190  16 Save the Post Office From Extinction…………………………………………………………………………...……199  17 What Dreams Are Made of? ……………………………………………………………………………………….…207  18 Into the Unknown……………………………………………………………………………………………………..215  19 Flexible Study for the Future Universities……………………………………………………………………………222  20 What Do the Humanities Teach Us? …………………………………………………………………………………230 PART 3 �м�(x��)��x  01 Delivery by Drone? …………………………………………………………………………………………………..238  02 Why You Have the Illusion That Your Phone Is Vibrating? ………………………………………………………… 242  03 Is Sustainable Always Better? ……………………………………………………………………………………. …246  04 Tobacco Control Has Saved 8 Million Lives…………………………………………………………………………250  05 The Art Market: Fairly Popular…………………………………………………………………………………….…254  06 Millennials Dream About Travel and Self-employment………………………………………………………………258  07 Know Yourself: How Mindfulness Can Improve Self-knowledge……………………………………………………262  08 Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa Ever Fall? ……………………………………………………………………..….…266  09 More Time Is Needed to Pay Off the Mortgage…………………………………………………………………....…269  10 Sorry, Marriage Is a “Luxury Good” ………………………………………………………………………...……….273  11 Are Selective Schools the Only School? …………………………………………………………………………..…276  12 The Myth of Blind Conformity…………………………………………………………………………………….…280  13 America’s Clash of Generations Is Inevitable………………………………………………………………….…..…285  14 You Have Never Actually Used a Styrofoam Product……………………………………………………………..…289  15 It’s Better to Be Right Than Happy………………………………………………………………………………..…293  16 Form Good Habits Instead of Enhancing Self-control Ability…………………………………………………….…297  17 Are People Really Staring at You? ………………………………………………………………………………...…301  18 What If There Were No Gravity on Earth? ………………………………………………………………………..…305  19 Is Einstein 2.0 Possible Today? ………………………………………………………………………………………309  20 Is an Expensive Watch Any Better at Telling Time? …………………………………………………………………313  21 The Brains of Men and Women Really Are Different……………………………………………………………..…317  22 Walt Disney………………………………………………………………………………………………………...…321  23 AIDS in India: The Cost of Living……………………………………………………………………………………325  24 GM Maize and Health…………………………………………………………………………………………………329  25 Intelligence……………………………………………………………………………………………………………333  26 Bigger Weddings Lead to Happier Marriages……………………………………………………………………...…337  27 A Decline of the Traditional Work-moral Values………………………………………………………………..……342  28 Conceptions of the World Is Relative to the Language One Learns? …………………………………………..….…346  29 The Spice of Language……………………………………………………………………………………………..…351  30 The Extinction of the Whales……………………………………………………………………………..………..…356  31 Too Much Choice Leads to Riskier Decisions…………………………………………………………………..……361  32 Ostracism Cuts Both Ways……………………………………………………………………………………………365  33 What Effect Does Extreme Cold Have on the Human Body? ………………………………………………….……369  34 Turtles in Danger…………………………………………………………………………………………………..…372  35 Growing Up Poor and Stressed Impacts Brain Function……………………………………………………….……376  36 Electricity From Waste Heat With More Efficient Materials. ………………………………………………………380  37 What You Should Ask Before Opting for Elective Surgery…………………………………………………………384  38 Why Are There So Many Tunnels Under London? …………………………………………………………………388  39 Our History Is Under Attack. ……………………………………………………………………………………..…392  40 Scientists Discover Freshwater Under the Ocean……………………………………………………………………396