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Bankers and the neuroscience of greed

Bankers and the neuroscience of greed | Science News | Scoop.it

- The Guardian

The unconstrained power of bankers acts like a drug on their brain's reward system, creating insatiable appetites...


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Mariana Soffer's comment, July 5, 2012 6:55 AM
this is strong
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Physics - Greed is Good

Physics - Greed is Good | Science News | Scoop.it

Many a tourist has, perhaps happily, gotten lost in the twists and turns along the way to Venice’s Piazza San Marco. How navigable a city is—or could be with an extra footbridge or better-placed signs—is something network models try to quantify. Now, writing in Physical Review Letters, two scientists show how one such model could better account for the way humans actually go about reaching a destination.

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Is Capitalism To Blame for Worldwide Obesity?

Is Capitalism To Blame for Worldwide Obesity? | Science News | Scoop.it

Why do people get fat, increasing their personal risk of heart disease, diabetes and other "lifestyle" diseases and society's risk of fiscal collapse from the expense of treating millions of people with those ailments? Conventional wisdom, favored by governments and a vast and growing "wellness industry" around the world, is that it's because individuals can't control themselves.

Grace Hennessy's curator insight, November 4, 2013 6:13 PM

This Article implys that a poor diet increases the risk of heart disease, diabetetes and other lifestyle dieases. and its now becoming a serious issuse for people around the world as the percentage of obsesity has grown immesively over the past 5 years.

Nicholas Grozdanov's curator insight, November 13, 2013 7:33 PM

Why do people get fat, increasing their personal risk of heart disease, diabetes and other "lifestyle" diseases and society's risk of fiscal collapse from the expense of treating millions of people with those ailments? 


What the article is stating is tht rather telling people that you should be excersing, people should be educating others on the effects and how to avoid obesity 

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Reason.tv: Evolutionary Psychologist Gad Saad on Consumerism, Sex, Advertising, and Human Nature - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine

Reason.tv: Evolutionary Psychologist Gad Saad on Consumerism, Sex, Advertising, and Human Nature - Hit & Run : Reason Magazine | Science News | Scoop.it
"The Ferrari is exactly the same in the human context," says evolutionary psychologist Gad Saad, "as the peacock's tail is on the peacock." Saad...

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