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The Large Hadron Collider , the world's largest and highest-energy particle accelerator, promises to revolutionize our knowledge of the universe and advance our understanding of the most fundamental laws of nature. But if you are not very good at quantum physics, do not worry: you can still get an explanation in RAP format of what the LHC is all about. A 'sound' explanation, indeed!

Via Mind Hacks           Ogi Ogas , a doctoral student in cognitive neuroscience at Cognitive and Neural Systems at Boston University, has applied techniques from cognitive psychology to win $500,000 on the show 'Who wants to be a Millionaire?'.  These techniques take advantage of well-studied psychological processes such as such as priming and the structure of associations...