Is your five year old a potential gambler?
21.03.09 / The frontiers of medicine / Author: Kevster / Comments: (0)
According to study made by Linda Pagani in 1999, toddlers and young kinds who were easily distracted and showed signs of hyperactivity were more prone to activities like gambling later in life.
The earlier study was backed up by a more recent one just this year, and it showed that less than a decade later the children who scored the highest in terms of “easily distracted” or “very hyperactive” were already playing for money.
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For more than a decade now, researchers across the globe have been engaged in a race to create the first ever artificial blood. As you may already know, blood is one of the most precious things in the world- and we’re just in short supply everyday.