First-person dream shooters.
Live Science reports on the nightmare-killing dreams of the hardcore gamer: By contrast, soldiers who did not play video games much suffered from more emotional […]
psychology
Tomorrow is over THERE.
SciAm looks this way and that at the way our minds work, trying to find out which way the future lies: The Pompuraawan, a remote […]
Passively untrue?
Science Daily actively engages readers with research that shows that a lack of fact-checking in articles undermines readers’ concept of truth: The study found that […]
Gotta go? Gotta choose!
The Association for Psychological Science really put the pressure on our decision-making process by drinking a few cups of coffee and publishing possibly the strangest […]
Smell of fertility.
It’s fairly well known that men react slightly differently to women when the women are ovulating. What the New York Times reveals is that men […]
Go out and play.
Researchers are rallying – literally – in defense of goofing off. Too much structure is hurting our children, say scientists in The Chronicle of Higher […]
Psychology of awkwardness.
RSA Animate presents Steven Pinker’s frank lecture on euphemism, called “Language as a window to human nature”: [via Inland Empire]
Keep looking up. But not THAT high.
I’m sure MSNBC isn’t *trying* to be a downer when they report that too much optimism is bad for cancer patients’ chances of recovery: The […]
Pink, but not pretty.
LiveScience joins forces with Peggy Orenstein to take on the “pink princess” culture and what it’s doing to our daughters: You spoke to scientists about […]
SONG: Planet of Diamonds
SONG: “Planet of Diamonds”. (To download: double right-click & “Save As”) ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Scientists Discover the First Carbon-Rich Planet – Which May […]
Fast food on the brain.
“That junk food is gonna get right up in yer head and rot there, by gum!” spat the old timer from Culinate.com. “Jest you mark […]
Who’s hottest – how?
The Economist gets downright dreamy with its rundown of who’s the biggest hunk – and why: [M]en often find women’s taste fickle and unfathomable. But […]
Heard the new drug?
First, The Chronicle of Higher Education turned up the special music and tuned into the science of brain-boosting binaural beats: “There are hundreds of examples […]
Babies against bullies.
Researchers are using a new weapon against school bullying, New York Times reveals. They’re putting babies in classrooms to make schoolkids more empathetic: We know […]
Comic Sans is… *good* for you.
Font fans, run in fear. BBC is reporting on new research that finds the Helveticats and Arialites have it all wrong. If you really want […]