No, kids – don’t take your seats. Not if you want to learn….
Science of Us looks over recent research showing that schoolkids learn better when they move around in class: “Kids aren’t meant to sit still all […]
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Volunteers are healthier. (They also tend to be richer.)
Science Daily finds that those who give back also seem to be getting back – because people who volunteer for causes are in better health […]
Hawaii prepares to welcome first astronauts back from “Mars.”
Hawaii Tribune-Herald marks the anticipated end of the year-long simulated Mars mission inside an old quarry: At 8,200 feet above sea level, the landscape mimics […]
Highly educated audiences prefer trash films.
PhysOrg is offering a tub of hot, buttered aesthetic vindication with its survey revealing that high education correlates with a love for awful movies: However, […]
Modern Milgram Experiments: plumbing the horror of only following orders
Nature reveals a new generation of Milgram experiments – the 50-year-old psychological tests that had subjects electrocute (or believe they were electrocuting) other people on […]
SONG: Heavy In My Head
SONG: “Heavy In My Head.” ARTIST: grant. SOURCE: Based on “Anxiety can impact people’s walking direction,” Science Daily, 19 Jan. 2016, as used in the […]
Games sell candy and snacks to kids. Better than ads.
Science Daily reports on the battle ground of our kids’ psyches, revealing that kids are interacting with – and being manipulated by – ads they […]
Weirdos are sexy. Here’s proof.
Scientific American takes a gendered view of this psychological study, using the fact that “women conforming to social standards aren’t as attractive” – but the […]
Be a better gift-giver – with psychological research.
Scientific American recently published a gift guide with no stuff it – just research showing how to be a better gift-giver: A 2009 study in […]
Quit Facebook. You’ll be happier. (Science says so.)
The aptly named Huh magazine sums up a Danish study that found people who leave Facebook feel measurably better about life: They took a group […]
Weird stuff: Better for your brain and your waistline.
Scientific American reveals that the stuff you really weren’t expecting – the “unusual, the jarring, the culturally shocking” – can improve your cognitive ability and […]
Self-control eats your memory.
The Guardian reveals how exerting the willpower not to eat that next donut actually lowers your ability to remember things clearly: In the lab, self-control […]
Love and Fitness
PLOS Biology wants us to know that in a cost/benefit analysis, love comes out ahead: A new study published in PLOS Biology by Malika Ihle, […]
Oh, and your picky eater is doomed, too.
OK, I’m overstating things for dramatic effect… but another Science Daily report reveals even moderately picky eaters face health risks: According to the study, published […]
You don’t know how (un)happy your children are.
Science Daily reveals that parents are (as we suspected) getting it all wrong – they think their 10-year-olds are happier – and their 15-year-olds are […]