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A team of scientists in Beijing have discovered novel inferences concerning the learned fear response in humans. Relax, this is a good thing. Learned fear is a condition that scientists don’t know a whole lot about. The human brain is mysterious and the fear response is believed to occur in parts of if that are incredibly difficult to scan with non-invasive measuring devices. Up front:You can’t just slap an EEG helmet on someone’s head and measure their brainwaves to determine how they respond to fear....

People tend to rejoice in the disclosure of a secret. Or, at the very least, media outlets have come to realize that news of “mysteries solved” and “hidden treasures revealed” generate traffic and clicks. So I’m never surprised when I see AI-assisted revelations about famous masters’ works of art go viral. Over the past year alone, I’ve come across articles highlighting how artificial intelligencerecovered a “secret” paintingof a “lost lover” of Italian painter Modigliani,“brought to life” a “hidden Picasso nude”,“resurrected” Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s destroyed worksand“restored” portions of Rembrandt’s 1642 painting “The Night Watch....

Boris is the wise ol’ founder of TNW who writes a weekly column on everything about being anentrepreneurin tech — from managing stress to embracing awkwardness. You can get his musings straight to your inbox bysigning up for his newsletter! A few years ago, a flower delivery service polled their clients and found out that 88% of men have never received flowers. Unfortunately, that means that the first time most men receive flowers is… at their funeral....

Through the past week, Microsoft took most of the wraps off of Windows 8. At a minimum, we have amuch improved viewof what the company is building. So far, the market response has been leaning towards the positive side of neutral. That is the correct place to be, as until access is granted to fuller builds of the operating system, it is hard to fairly judge its merit. There is, however, a single topic that has thus eluded nearly all discussion, only being touched on peripherally....

Don’t hide behind ‘best practices’ for business success — experiment! Why I believe experimentation is key to business success Businesses should encourage ‘freedom to fail’ Take British Gas — a company that wouldn’t perhaps come to mind when thinking about innovation — for example. They managed to change this perception internally. They allowed for failures. British Gas selected a special team dedicated to developing a new piece of innovative heating tech....