From solving problems to flashes of inspiration, scientists are beginning to unravel the creative powerhouse that is the mind at night.
Read the article: Waiting for that life-changing idea? Just sleep on it
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US economic, military and political dominance is likely to decline over the next two decades, according to a new US intelligence report on global trends. The National Intelligence Council (NIC) predicts China, India and Russia will increasingly challenge US influence.
Read the article: US global dominance ‘set to wane’
Millions of people in Malaysia have been banned from doing yoga because of fears it could corrupt Muslims. The Islamic authorities have issued a ruling, known as a fatwa, instructing the country’s Muslims to avoid yoga because of its Hindu roots.
Read the article: Malaysia outlaws yoga for Muslims
Citgroup executives, faced with a plunging share price, began weighing the possibility of auctioning off pieces of the financial giant or even selling the company outright, the Wall Street Journal reported late Thursday, citing people familiar with the situation.
Read the article: Report: Citigroup weighs potential sale
“Scientists have shown what many have always suspected – that entrepreneurs’ brains are different to those of managers. A study at Cambridge university, published on Thursday in the journal Nature, found that entrepreneurs’ brains were more active in the region responsible for taking “risky or hot” decisions.
The researchers suggested that the type of risk-taking essential to the entrepreneurial process could be taught, or enhanced by drugs.” – FT
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While many of the world’s best business brains are exercising themselves over the current global banking and equities crisis, there is another issue which has the potential to dominate our lives far more in the longer term — energy.
Read the article: The future of energy – CNN.com
India is celebrating the arrival of its Chandrayaan 1 spacecraft at the Moon.
Read the article: Indian satellite orbiting Moon
Steve Jobs Stanford Commencement Speech in 2005.
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Students from University of Washington have devised technichques using which videos containing atrifacts can be enhanced and improved using one or more static images of the same scene.
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