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When I was single I would frown at mothers who couldn’t control their screaming youngsters at a mall; now, I smile and nod to let them know I feel their pain.

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An influential theory among psychologists is that we are cognitive misers. This is the idea that we are reluctant to do mental work unless we have to. We will try to avoid thinking things fully when a short cut is available. For instance, if you were asked to name the street where the restaurant serving the best Japanese food in town is located, what would you do? More often than not, you would type on Google for the information you need.

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Research shows that people do not rely on their memories for things they can easily access. Things like the world in front of our eyes can be change quite radically without people noticing. Experiments have shown that buildings can somehow disappear from pictures we are looking at, or the people we are talking to can be switched with someone else, and often we would not notice - a phenomenon called "change blindness".

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It was shocking when the Chinese government updated the number of Internet users in the country, which had reached 210 million. It is a staggering figure, up by more than 50 per cent on the previous year and more than three times the number for India, the emerging Asian giant with which China is most often compared. Within a few months, China will have more Internet users than America, the current leader

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Emily Howell is not yet ten. But that did not stop her from composing six musical scores and releasing two classical albums. Some say her style resembles that of the great composers like Bach and Mozart.

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Now, a new study published by the Annals of Newlogy finds that you do not even need to learn that second (or third, or fourth) tongue at a very young age. Picking up a new language even a little later in life can have serious cognitive benefits for the ageing brain. Many recent studies have pointed out that bilingualism seems to be good exercise for the brain, and later in life, might even help delay the onset of dementia.

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I have talked twice to the girls, and, as they repeated to a foreign television crew only a few weeks ago, they are being persecuted but will never again be cowed. Four years ago, Kainat says, girls were hiding books under their burqas. Now, she says, the oppressors “can’t stop us from going to school. I want to study. I am not afraid.” Now, Shazia says, “We are strong.”

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A man wakes up in a New York apartment, brews coffee and goes out into the world, and everything that can appear on a smart phone or iPad appears before his eyes instead – weather reports, calendar reminders, messages from friends, walking maps of New York, his girlfriend’s smiling face.

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Less than a quarter of a century ago, 75 per cent of Kalimantan was covered in thick forests. Cleared away since by loggers, oil palm plantations and grandiose projects, the forests have shrunk by about half. Fires, meanwhile, have grown more frequent and serious. For centuries, Kalimantan locals burned forest land to create plots for farming. But what used to be small, controlled fires have become fearsome conflagrations as dry and degraded peat goes up in smoke.

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E-mail is not something you can hold in your hand, send in the mail, and a stamp is not needed to send it. E-mail is simply mail put into digital form and sent to its recipient through the Internet. Because of the technological advances of societ, mail has been turned into something computer made that can be sent anyplace, anytime, as long as there is an Internet connection.

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