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Sixteen years ago, in the far north of Norway, just past a bus stop in the town of Alta and down a series of ramps to the edge of a fjord, I found one of the world’s finest displays of rock art. I’d ...

A lot of people think they know how to sharpen pencils, but… they don’t.’ A guide to doing it right, by an artisanal pro ...

André Vaz is a postdoctoral researcher in the Social Cognition lab at Ruhr Universität Bochum in Germany. His research focuses on how people form judgments and make decisions, particularly examining ...

Martin Wiener is associate professor in the Department of Psychology at George Mason University in Virginia, US. He is an expert in time perception and temporal processing. His work has been featured ...

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