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Another boring meeting in Edinburgh today. The day started with torrential rain, but by the time I emerged from the gloom of more budget cuts, Mother Nature's sunnier side had come out to play.  And strolling across St Andrew's Square, what should I stumble upon, but the planet Saturn. As one does.


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A small group of scientists in Toronto believe they have found evidence that reading fiction has psychological benefits.

They gave one group of readers a short story by Anton Chekhov, and another group the same story, but in documentary form.

"We found that people who read the Chekhov story underwent larger changes in personality than those who ( Read more... )