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Tactile illusions 3: Boxing clever

Life

Tactile illusions 3: Boxing clever

Here's a way to confound your family and friends with just boxes and bricks

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Tactile illusions 2: Perceptual rivalry

Life

Tactile illusions 2: Perceptual rivalry

Features

Seven ways to fool your sense of touch

Humans

Seven ways to fool your sense of touch

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Why pets give us warm and fuzzy feelings

Life

Why pets give us warm and fuzzy feelings

Books & Arts

Tactile illusions 5: Change numbness

Life

Tactile illusions 5: Change numbness

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Health

'Mad cow' protein may keep brain cells chatting

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Life

'Theory of mind' could help explain belief in God

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'Hair blindness' likely to exist in humans

Life

'Hair blindness' likely to exist in humans

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Musicians are fine-tuned to others' emotions

Humans

Musicians are fine-tuned to others' emotions

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East meets west: How the brain unites us all

Life

East meets west: How the brain unites us all

The way we think may be shaped by the culture in which we grow up, but the similarities between groups are far greater than the differences, says Ed Yong

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Life

Humans may be primed to believe in creation

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Life

Did aversion to bitter tastes evolve into moral disgust?

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Life

King of the swingers has no use for mirrors

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Life

'Happiness' gene helps you look on the bright side

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