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You think you make decisions early because you're decisive. UCL research finds uncertainty is more stressful than pain itself
A study published in Nature Communications found that a 50 per cent chance of pain is more stressful than pain itself — which reframes premature decisions as a coping mechanism, not a personality trait.
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In late 1971, Ray Tomlinson sat at two side-by-side PDP-10s in a Cambridge office and sent a message from one to the other across ARPANET, picking the @ symbol off his Model 33 Teletype because it was the only punctuation that couldn't appear in a user's name
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