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• Are you smarter than a chimpanzee?

  08-11-2015 10:30
  
  Take the Observer quiz and find out what your responses say about you
  Are you smarter than a chimpanzee? Don’t look yet, but below, the numbers 1-9 are printed in random position. Glance at the upper box for a second or two (I’m being generous – the chimpanzee needs only half a second) then cover it up and, moving down to the lower box (right at the bottom of this page), connect the squares in the correct ascending numerical order (starting, of course, with 1). Continue reading
  
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• Mom's favorite child more likely to be depressed

  08-11-2015 09:00
  
  Adult children who perceive themselves to be emotionally closer to their mother than their siblings are more likely to have symptoms of depression, new research suggests.
  
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• After they were famous: what happened next?

  08-11-2015 07:00
  
  Life-defining moments are all very well, but then what? Chris Wright has made a study of what it means to move onOne day Alan Bean decided it was time for a change of career. History would always remember him as the fourth man to walk on the moon, during the Apollo 12 mission in 1969; he’d served on Skylab, too. But he wanted to do something else. So he took to his great passion, painting, and has had considerable success for the best part of 40 years. But he’s only ever painted one
  
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