Compassionate kids, caveman kids.
You want a child who’s smart, calm and caring? Science Daily recommends doing it like the Neanderthals: Three new studies led by Notre Dame Psychology […]
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Prescription pop.
Researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University are using music (and audio engineering) to treat pain and depression – by mapping out emotional terrain in pop songs: […]
What do you have to say?
That’s the question posed by a fun linguistic think-piece in the New York Times. The article looks over the latest developments in linguistic determination – […]
Look who’s running the asylum.
And, in fact, the whole discipline of psychology. National Post exposes the sad truth that industrialized, post-Enlightenment Westerners are weird: The article, titled “The weirdest […]
Unselfish? Don’t expect us to *like* it.
Science Daily explores an ugly side of human nature. Research shows that groups don’t like good guys among them: Four separate studies led by a […]
Take a hike, kid.
G’wan. Get out of here. No, you don’t need me to hold your hand. The Guardian says you should go outside and play! [A] growing […]
Look happy, feel happy.
It’s not just about paralyzing your face to make you look younger. Not too long ago, Indiana University revealed that Botox really does make people […]
Read in color!
New Scientist teaches you how to make yourself synaesthetic: Olympia Colizoli at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, and colleagues… gave seven volunteers a […]
Addicted to heartbreak
The same circuit that controls your jonesin’ for just one more is also, the American Physiological Society says, in charge of your heartbreak: The pain […]
Dirtier. Happier. Smarter.
Science Daily makes me eager to get out in the woods and get dirty. Mostly, just to dig around in the fallen leaves, but also […]
Hang onto that four-leaf clover.
PhysOrg produces scientific proof that superstitions kinda do bring luck: Damisch teamed with colleagues Barbara Stoberock and Thomas Mussweiler, also from the University of Cologne, […]
Kids of same-sex parents: eerily well-adjusted.
CNN throws some science at the ongoing ruckus over same-sex parenting: A nearly 25-year study concluded that children raised in lesbian households were psychologically well-adjusted […]
Monkeys pay for porn.
Nature says it’s true: Rhesus monkeys will trade items of value – in this case, juice – in return for sexy monkey booty shots: The […]
Bat sex: Dirty enough to make trouble.
New Scientist uncorks a biological scandal involving research into the naughty things bats do after dark: University College Cork in Ireland is coming under international […]
Aw, the widdew scientist want to tawk aww gwown up!
Yep. Science Daily says it’s a good idea to talk to children using grown-up language: Academic language is characterised by difficult, abstract words and complex […]