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“It’s noisy and crowded, with a rudimentary sewage system, yet people talk about serenity”.

As is so often with science, especially when you get messy biological specimens involved, the truth turns out to be much more complicated and not what you thought. When you start to consider crowd behaviour it makes intuitive sense to see a load of people as particles in a fluid flowing through corridors and doorways. The ultimate example of humans interacting come when you get a bunch of us together and make a crowd, which doesn’t behave the way you may think. Sadly, it is of little use when trying to find out who ate the last biscuits and probably unethical when used with kids. I use the word interrogate advisedly as this technique only really works in that situation. It is a harder mental task and if the person is lying they are thus more likely to get their story wrong. The standard technique is to ask the person you are interrogating to tell their story in reverse chronological order. If you can make the potential liar do more mental work as they potentially lie, they are more likely to get their story tangled and slip up. If you are telling a lie it is more mental effort than telling the truth, you need to invent story details, keep them straight in your head and consistent. The only thing that has proven to be a little bit effective is to try and get the person you are questioning to slip up in their story.

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Looking out for eye contact, sweaty skin or increase of pulse have all proven to show no correlation with lying. Truth detection schemes have all proven to be basically useless, and that includes lie-detector machines. So what’s the knack? Well, there isn’t one.

If a long history of unconscious bias can teach us anything, it's that faulty thinking can be fatal.

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The Myth Gap: how to navigate a world of ‘post-truth’ politics.

Five ways to get anyone to tell you the truth (plus find out who the most likely liars are).

You are statistically better off flipping a coin to determine if somebody is telling the truth or lying. In fact, almost everyone is worse at spotting lies than random chance. Sadly, and sorry to have to disabuse you of this notion, but you are almost certainly no good at spotting a lie. How good, for example, are you at spotting a lie, or telling lies for that matter? Chances are you think you are poor at lying but have a bit of a knack for spotting them.

Knowing how to deal with other members of our species is a constant challenge for us all. Much of being human today is about how we interact with each other both face to face and on-line. Life as a human being is not all about muscles and our deep evolutionary past.

What happens to my body when I exercise?.How to push the limits of human endurance – Alex Hutchinson.

HIIT is changing the way we work out, here's the science why it works.The great thing is that once you have inflicted and then suffered from DOMS, the muscle is protected from further damage as your it has now been elongated by the healing process. The delayed part is because it takes a little while, about a day, for the process to get fully underway. This swelling leads to a shortening of the muscle and that is the pain you feel with DOMS. In evolutionary terms, it is only the blink of the eye that we have been the only sapient species on the planet.Įffectively a cleanup crew of white blood cells are sent into the damaged muscle and this, in turn, causes the muscle to become slightly inflamed and swollen. We are all part Neanderthal and part Denisovan and for most of the history of the human species, we lived together with other intelligent hominids. It turns out, if you analyse Neanderthal, human and Denisovan genetics we have had a long, long history of such interbreeding. In this cave, a group of hominids were living and interbreeding with each other. Pause for a moment - consider what this means. On top of that when they analysed the genetics of one of the tiny handful of Denisovan remains they realised that the young female it came from had a Neanderthal mother and Denisovan father. Together - at the same time - presumably as a community. What really blew the minds of the scientists was that all three species appear to have been living together in this cave. Why Neanderthals aren't the brutish, primitive species we once thought.Ancient Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid unearthed in Siberian cave.