Science Magazine examines our internal clock, and the power that sunlight has in saving us from being so tired of waking up tired:
… Read the rest “Electricity is sapping our sleep.”Turning lights on at night can delay melatonin release and
If everyone is stressed out, Scientific American seems to be saying, then women will have a mental advantage. That’s because stressed men are worse at learning:
… Read the rest “The worst learners are stressed-out men.”Male and female participants
Doctor Dolittle… well, not exactly. But The Telegraph reads dogs’ faces to see if they’re happy to see you:
… Read the rest “Watch your dog’s left eyebrow. That’s how they say they’re glad to see you.”Animal behaviour experts have found the animals’ emotions
The Telegraph celebrates the effect rituals have on our appetites, with research that shows saying grace makes the meal taste better:
… Read the rest “Grace makes the meal taste better (and singing improves the birthday cake).”The study, by researchers from Minnesota University,
Nature looks at some strange mice and even stranger methodology used to map their brains – by using light to turn OCD on and off:
… Read the rest “Switching the light on and off to switch OCD on and off.”Researchers have both created and relieved symptoms
Science Daily sticks it to the people with an innate ear for what’s a C and what isn’t. Apparently, “perfect pitch” can be fooled:
… Read the rest “Perfect pitch isn’t.”Absolute pitch has been “idealized
Doesn’t matter who you are or what you want, University Herald explains. The negotiator who asks for the specific number gets the upper hand:
… Read the rest “Specific numbers make negotiations more favorable. For you. Not the other guy.”Research conducted by [Columbia Business
BBC puts on a big show about how smart folks’ brains filter out big background motions – a capacity that proves that intelligence is really… oh, look! What’s that… Read the rest “The smarter you are, the less you’ll be distracted by large-scale…. Wait, what was I saying?”
Berkeley researchers have mapped out connections between the music we hear and the colors we see. That is, blues music really is blue, and Mozart’s Flute Concerto #1 is bright orange… Read the rest “Coloring in the blues.”
Science says so. Pacific Standard reports on two studies that find guys with guitars really are more attractive:
… Read the rest “The guitar thing WORKS, man.”Across cultures, the research would suggest, male musicians are viewed
Harvard researcher Ted Kaptchuk is mastering the medical secrets of sleight-of-mind by figuring out how to use placebos as real medicine:
… Read the rest “Real fake medicine isn’t really fake. It’s real. But how real?”Last year, he and colleagues from several Harvard-affiliated
Nature reports that the link between youthful indulgence in marijuana and IQ loss might be overstated:
… Read the rest “Dope smokers maybe not so dopey.”Ole Røgeberg, a labour economist at the Ragnar Frisch Centre for Economic Research
Researchers at Tel Aviv University have mapped out the perceptual problem with racism, in a Psychological Science study looking at the way “essentialism” limits our ability… Read the rest “Racism linked to a lack of creativity. (A surprise from the pigeonhole department.)”
New York Times reviews the research demonstrating that MDMA, better known as X, can work wonders with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients:
… Read the rest “More on the “party drug” that’s helping America’s veterans (and others).”Government regulators criminalized the
SONG: “Cloudbusting” (To download: double right-click & “Save As”)
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SOURCE: This is a penitential cover. I was late with the last song. … Read the rest “SONG: Cloudbusting (by Kate Bush) (a penitential cover)”
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