Security officials in airports across the country are stepping up the use of a new screening technique that examines behavior instead of bags. Midmorning will find out how facial expressions and other nonverbal communication can reveal emotion and how officers are using this information to screen passengers.
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For centuries, artists have connected music with matters of the mind and the heart. Midmorning talks with cognitive neurologist Daniel Levitin to dig deeper into our connection with music. Levitin's research explores what music is, how it has developed over time and the impact it has on our brains.
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DFL candidate for governor Mike Hatch is trying to make embryonic stem cell research a key issue in this year's campaign. For the second time in a month, Hatch held a news conference to propose a $100 million state investment in stem cell research.
New brain imaging studies show that political allegiance affects how people view candidates, and that among political partisans emotion often trumps reason. Midmorning rebroadcasts a conversation with two psychologists about politics and the brain.
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Physicists will tell you that space and time are actually one and the same. Columbia University's Brian Greene, author of "The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time and the Texture of Reality," explained how that's possible in a speech at the Aspen Ideas Festival in Aspen, Colo.
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Some of us may have heard the old admonition, "Good night, sleep tight, don't let the bedbugs bite." But recent bedbug outbreaks in Duluth and around the nation's hotels, hospitals and college dorms have turned the nursery rhyme into words of warning.
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In a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, potential 2008 presidential candidate Gov. George Pataki, R-N.Y., discusses "Energy Freedom: Putting an End to Foreign Oil's Dangerous Grip on America's Future."
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You can get pretty much anything on the Internet these days. Cheap shoes. Used futons. A husband. And now people are turning to the Web to find kidneys and livers.