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• Can a brain scan uncover your morals and determine whether a prisoner dies?

  17-01-2016 13:00
  
  Brains images are becoming standard evidence in some of the country’s most controversial and disturbing death penalty casesIt’s hard to imagine Steven Northington killing two people. The 43-year-old says he likes to make people laugh, “like a comedian”. He’s a loyal son to his troubled mother and father. He sends his younger sister birthday cards from prison and draws elaborate smiley faces on them. His defense team laughs with affection when they hear his name beca
  
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• Can a brain scan uncover your morals?

  17-01-2016 13:00
  
  Brains images are becoming standard evidence in some of the country’s most controversial and disturbing death penalty trials – including the case of Steven NorthingtonIt’s hard to imagine Steven Northington killing two people. The 43-year-old says he likes to make people laugh, “like a comedian”. He’s a loyal son to his troubled mother and father. He sends his younger sister birthday cards from prison and draws elaborate smiley faces on them. His defense team
  
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• Meet the new you: a self-help guide to shake you up

  17-01-2016 12:00
  
  Overhauling your life, whether it’s your home, job or your relationship, can seem an impossible task. But these five self-help gurus are here to get you startedWhatever you know or even think you know about mindfulness, Rohan Gunatillake wants you to consider his perspective. “Mindfulness needs to be normalised,” he says. “Why have we been trying to import a system designed for medieval Asian monastics into our culture?”Power posing – hands on hips, arms in th
  
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• Are you good at swearing?

  17-01-2016 10:30
  
  Knowing lots of swear words is a sign of a broad vocabularyLess than 10 Your mother would be proud. Your swearing ability is below average (or at least you came up with fewer swear words than the average participant in a recent American study – perhaps we Brits have a more colourful vocabulary in general).More than 10 Congratulations! You know more swear words than the average American! Continue reading...
  
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• A literary cure for loneliness

  17-01-2016 10:30
  
  Put your iPad down, ditch the phone and pick up a book. It could boost your circle of sympathyFortunate owners of working fireplaces in my neighbourhood have their chimneys swept by a father-and-son team of great kindliness and charm. Once every couple of years is enough, they say, unless you keep a fire burning every day. So they were surprised when a new customer called them back after only a month. Had they done something wrong? No, not at all. Eventually they realised that she wanted company
  
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• Life after death: couples' life quality linked, even after one partner dies

  17-01-2016 09:00
  
  While researchers know a spouse's quality of life can be influenced by that of their partner, a new study finds this association continues even after one spouse dies.
  
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• Frequent contact between parents and adult children is beneficial to both

  17-01-2016 09:00
  
  Though parents may worry that they are more involved with grown children than in the past, frequent contact between parents and their grown children can be beneficial to both parties.
  
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• Oh, this worship of showing-off. Let’s hear it for the shy | Catherine Bennett

  17-01-2016 01:01
  
  Discretion and reserve were once admired. Now the extroverts are exalted and the quiet seen to be flawedThanks to a Freedom of Information request, following a trip to Iraq, newly revealed Foreign Office emails have indicated the lengths to which the mayor of London – also, allegedly, the MP for somewhere or other – will go to get himself noticed.Since no mayoral word has emerged, to advise why Johnson needed to sprawl on a mountainside with a Kalashnikov, it looks as if this level o
  
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