Poor sleep can sour relationships. Powerful people are better at shaking off rebuffs. And people who gaze at the vastness of nature tend to be less self-centered. These are a few of the intriguing findings UC Berkeley psychologists will be presenting at this week's annual meeting of the Society of Personality and Social Psychology in New Orleans.
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Ever since he was a kid growing up in Germany, Holger Müller has been asking himself a fundamental question: What is time? That question has led Müller, today an assistant professor of physics at the UC Berkeley, to a whole new way of measuring time: using mass. "A rock is a clock, so to speak," he says, as if by explanation. It's all about quantum mechanics.
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Arsenic, an element well-known to plague private-well water, made headlines recently for its presence in a food Americans consume widely: rice. The UC Berkeley Wellness Letter looks at recent research findings and suggests ways to reduce arsenic consumption while still enjoying the popular grain.
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