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Researchers shed light on cockroaches’ vanishing act
Researchers shed light on cockroaches’ vanishing act (via The Bay Citizen) Insects swing like a pendulum to hide under cracks and ledges. You’ve seen it and begrudgingly admired it: the speed and swiftness with which a cockroach vanishes when you turn on a light while entering a dark room. Now,…
Study: Atheists more driven by compassion than highly religious people
Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than atheists, agnostics and less religious people, according to a new study. Research from University of California, Berkeley published in the most recent edition of the journal Social Psychological and Personality Science found a stronger link between compassion and generosity among non-religious…
Rich people less empathetic than the poor: study
The depiction of the rich and cold-hearted Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens classic “A Christmas Carol” is backed up with scientific evidence, according to researchers at the University of California at Berkeley. The researchers found that people in lower socio-economic classes are more physiologically attuned to the suffering of others than…
Daniel Ellsberg joins protest at UC Berkeley
Protesters at UC Berkeley were joined overnight Wednesday by former Defense Department official Daniel Ellsberg. The 80-year-old Ellsberg is credited with leaking the so-called Pentagon Papers to The New York Times in 1969, which revealed that the government had lied about the progress of the Vietnam war, among other things.…
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