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The Most Influential Websites in the World: Wikipedia
A year ago we profiled an oddly-named service called ://URLFAN, which we concluded was a good 'Influence Index' for the Web. ://URLFAN ranks websites by popularity, based on blog mentions. Unlike analytics services like Alexa or Com...
Price of gold fails to de-bling Indian weddings
For Indian brides, the bigger the better is the general rule for jewellery. But record gold prices during this year's wedding season are forcing many to compromise. Record gold prices during India's wedding season are...
The Chameleon Effect
Does mimicking other people's body language really make them like us? Self-help books, persuasion manuals and glossy magazine articles often advise that mimicking body language can increase how much others like us. But is it really tru...
Seeking -- How the brain hard-wires us to love Google, Twitter, and texting. And why that\'s dangerous
Seeking. You can't stop doing it. Sometimes it feels as if the basic drives for food, sex, and sleep have been overridden by a new need for endless nuggets of electronic information. We are so insatiably curious that we gather data eve...
Men often treat their friends better than women do
Who's more "sociable," men or women? Common sense says it's women, right? And many research studies back this impression up: Women are more interpersonal, more connected, more interdependent than men. Women are more likely to shar...
Beatles memorabilia given to schoolgirl fan fetches £2,200
The Beatles: A collection of autographs and photographs given to to a schoolgirl has sold for £2,200. A rare collection of Beatles autographs and photographs, given to a 14-year-old who traipsed across Salisb...

