Archive for July, 2008
How Many Silicon Valley Startup Executives Are Hopped Up On Provigil?
Is someone you work with taking Provigil to give them an extra competitive edge? Michael Arrington of TechCrunch.com have spoken with one executive who says he uses it regularly to work twenty hour days, and the buzz lately is that it’s the “entrepreneur’s drug of choice” around Silicon Valley. Over the last week two separate […]
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A Baby’s Smile Is a Natural High
The baby’s smile that gladdens a mother’s heart also lights up the reward centers of her brain, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in a report that appears in the journal Pediatrics today.
The finding could help scientists figure out the special mother-infant bond and how it sometimes go wrong, said Dr. Lane Strathearn, assistant professor […]
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Microsoft Still Keen on Yahoo Bid
Software giant Microsoft says it would be willing to re-open talks with Yahoo about a possible takeover if the search firm had a new board of directors.
Microsoft had offered to buy its rival’s search business but was rebuffed by Yahoo last month. A number of investors have criticised Yahoo’s decision. Yahoo shares closed up 12% […]
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Male Biological Clock ‘Ticks Too’
Scientists say they have found more evidence that men as well as women have biological clocks and that they start to tick in their mid-30s.
A French study of over 12,200 couples having fertility treatment suggests the chance of a successful pregnancy falls when the man is aged over 35. It adds that the […]
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