Science Daily covers a Northwestern University study that shows how to remove biases from your brain while you’re sleeping:
… Read the rest “Sleep away your bad attitudes.”Other researchers have documented many unsavory consequences
Scientific American examines what’s so wise about cracking up at meetings:
… Read the rest “Humor boosts the bottom line. (Call it “funny business.”)”…Lehmann-Willenbrock and Allen explored whether humor in the workplace might also help a corporation
Science Daily peeks into the weird world of Exploding Head Syndrome, a surprisingly common condition in which young people are suddenly awoken by an ear-splitting boom:
… Read the rest “Has your head ever exploded? (Or *sounded* like it?)”Brian Sharpless,
SONG: “Sleeping.”
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SOURCE: Based on “Naps Help Infants Form Memories“, Laboratory Equipment, 14 January 2015, as used in the post “Naps… Read the rest “SONG: Sleeping”
Probably us too, but Laboratory Equipment is only looking at the way babies need naps to remember new things:
… Read the rest “Naps make memories (in infants).”In a study, which is the first of its kind, researchers from the Univ. of Sheffield
Scientific American‘s Michael Shermer gets at the root of why we’re so fascinated with the walking dead:
… Read the rest “Why… zombies?”Zombies, for one thing, fit into the horror genre in which monstrous
I don’t normally go to Business Insider for science news, but they’ve actually got a pretty good rundown of recent research into the problems with taking smart phones to bed… Read the rest “Screen light too bright, can’t get to sleep at night (now, eyes won’t focus right).”
Nature has more on how the veterinary tranquilizer-slash-rave drug can reverse “anhedonia” (the inability to feel happy) for 14 days – long enough to bust sufferers… Read the rest “Ketamine – “special K” – can break treatment-resistant depression.”
Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited strangers:
… Read the rest “Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!””“There’s
Daily Beast looks over Washington University research that’s found that the singular diagnosis of schizophrenia is actually a compound disease, caused by eight different genetic… Read the rest “Schizophrenia: many diseases in one”
Science Daily takes us humans out of the driver’s seat and puts the germs inside us in charge of the menu tonight:
… Read the rest “Gut bacteria choose what you eat.”In an article published this week in the journal BioEssays, researchers
It isn’t easy being alone with our thoughts. Nature makes monks seem manlier than ever with research that shows most people prefer physical pain to just sitting and thinking:
… Read the rest “Anything but solitary contemplation, man. NOT THAT!!”“We
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SOURCE: Based on “Bees build mental maps to get home”, Nature… Read the rest “SONG: “Colonies””
Or so says National Geographic-profiled biopsychologist Lori Marino, an expert in the brains of “lesser” animals:
… Read the rest “Animals are people too.”Formerly a full-fledged research scientist who found
Or, as NPR clarifies, what’s not there that makes *us* want to count. With our feet. Studies of syncopation have revealed that it’s absence that makes you want to dance:
… Read the rest “Science of dance music: it’s what’s not there that counts.”Last
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