Zap of electricity makes you a brighter spark [via The Daily Telegraph] A team of Oxford University scientists has found that pulsing low-level current from right to left through the parietal lobe, an area of the brain related to mathematical skill, doubled their performance on math tests. Subjects receiving left-to-right currents, however, dropped to the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Psychology’
Morning Briefing: 5 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Bacon, Cave Diving, Free Diving, Mathematics, Psychology, Science, Soda, World Record on November 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Morning Briefing: 2 November 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Britain, Cruise Ships, David Cameron, Denmark, Elections, European Court of Human Rights, Pornography, Prisoners, Psychology, Voting on November 2, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The Strange Link Between Winning Elections and Online Porn [via Time] Online porn usage spikes in states that voted for a winning candidate after elections, two psychology professors from Villanova and Rutgers Universities found. The researchers hypothesized that, because men, who consume the vast majority of online pornography, experience elevated testosterone levels after winning a [...]
The Psychology of the Juan Williams Controversy
Posted in Culture, Media, Politics, tagged Fox News, Islam, Juan Williams, NPR, Psychology on October 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Last week NPR news analyst Juan Williams was fired for remarks he made on Fox News’ “O’Reilly Factor” regarding Muslims. Political correctness can lead to some kind of paralysis where you don’t address reality. I mean look, Bill, I’m not a bigot. You know the kind of books I’ve written about the civil rights movement [...]
Morning Briefing: 1 October 2010
Posted in Morning Briefing, tagged Oktoberfest, Paleontology, Penguins, Psychology on October 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Ancient giant penguin unearthed in Peru [via the BBC] Scientists from the University of Texas and Yale have discovered the fossil of a giant penguin in Peru that lived some 36 million years ago. Inkayacu paracasensis, about twice the size of contemporary Emperor penguins, had brown and grey feathers and a long, straight beak. The [...]
A Twentysomething Reacts to the Times’ Twentysomethings Article
Posted in Education, Whatever, tagged New York Times, Psychology, Twentysomethings on August 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Why are so many people in their 20s taking so long to grow up?” So begins the 8,000-word novella on today’s New York Times magazine cover. Why indeed? This question is over rather paramount importance to me — a 22-year-old liberal arts college graduate, unemployed, living with my parents and looking for a job in [...]
