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• File that under ‘M’ for messy

  17-04-2016 07:00
  
  No time to sort all that paperwork? Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths have a solution that will come as a real surpriseIn the early 1990s, Japanese economist Yukio Noguchi was overwhelmed by the effort of organising the papers that crossed his desk every day, so he did something drastic: he stopped trying. He began throwing every file, regardless of its contents or type, into the same box. Any time he pulled out a file to use it, he didn’t even bother to put it back where he’d got it
  
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• What can solving anagrams tell you about yourself?

  17-04-2016 06:59
  
  People associate red and green with particular outcomes – so performance may depend on the background colourGive yourself one minute to try to solve those in the green box (covering up the red box – this is important), then one minute with those in the red box (covering up the green box).How many did you get in each (answers at the bottom of the page)? A 2007 study found that exposure to red was associated with significantly worse performance than exposure to green (or black and whit
  
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