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People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths

People who get lost in the wild follow strangely predictable paths

26 February 2020

Lose your bearings in an unfamiliar landscape and fear shreds your navigational brain. But studies are now revealing the common mistakes lost people make, helping rescue teams to find them before it’s too late
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Learning whilst you sleep was big business in the Soviet Union

26 February 2020

“Sleep-learning,” we observed half a century ago “is big business in the Soviet Union.” A slew of studies, experiments and trials from behind the Iron Curtain showed an enthusiasm for pumping information, such as lists of foreign words, into people whilst...

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