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Thursday, July 28, 2011

Videogame Next Gen: Coming 2012

Microsoft and Sony were hoping to wait until 2014, but Nintendo has forced them to change their plans. With the Wii U coming out next year, the Xbox 720 and the PlayStation 4 (at least what they're being referred to by Yahoo News) will be released in 2012 as well...
Wii U is pushing the Xbox 720 and PS4 to debut sooner, says Ubisoft CEO
Jeffrey Van Camp
Tue, Jul 19, 2011
http://news.yahoo.com/wii-u-pushing-xbox-720-ps4-debut-sooner-154348071.html

iPhone Outsells Nokia

It's official. Apple is now the top-selling smart phone company, with 20.3 million iPhones being sold last quarter vs. 16.7 million phones from Nokia...
Nokia abdicates smartphone crown to iPhone
Tarmo Virki
Thu Jul 21, 2011 11
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/21/us-nokia-idUSTRE76K0TE20110721

Human Brain Needs to Konform

In a study published in the Journal of Science, participants watched a documentary and were quizzed on it. They were then given incorrect answers and told they came from other participants. In 70 percent of the test subjects, a funny thing happenned. As noted in NaturalNews.com: "The amygdala and hippocampus areas of the subject's brains, areas linked to memory and recall, began to experience increased activity, and the test subjects began to defend the incorrect answers. Their persistent defense of the false answers convinced researchers that the subjects actually believed the false answers to be true."
Following the Crowd: Brain Substrates of Long-Term Memory Conformity
Micah Edelson, Tali Sharot, Raymond J. Dolan, Yadin Dudai
Science
1 July 2011
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/333/6038/108.abstract

Peer pressure causes people to literally alter their memories of recent events
Wednesday, July 20, 201
Sally Oaken
http://www.naturalnews.com/033059_peer_pressure_memories.html