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The Morning According to Us

By Chris Sprow

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

One of the great mysteries of science, something that truly can't be accounted for, is the mind's power over the physical body. In science, perhaps the greatest example of this is the placebo effect: if a person believes they are being cured, the mind overpowers the disease, or source of pain. But for the Boston Celtics, the source of pain is no Kevin Garnett, and we can truly see there is no mind over matter option here. As New Scientist explains, in a real life version of the experiment, ...

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