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 ‘Science’
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 »
British Science Funding Spared (Kind Of), But Book Prize May Not Be
Posted in Politics, Science, tagged George Osbourne, Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Science, United Kingdom on October 20, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Scientists in the United Kingdom are celebrating today as government cuts to research funds have been frozen rather than slashed dramatically, as they previously feared. A comprehensive review of government spending, released today, promised that science funding would be kept at £4.6 billion annually, amounting to only around a 10 percent loss due to inflation. [...]
The Imbibing Idiot Bias
Posted in Science, tagged Academia, Alcohol, Job Search, Research, Science on September 19, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
“Mad Men” is on tonight (and make sure to check back tomorrow for analysis from ACG Blog contributors). You are almost certain to see someone have a drink at the office. Probably not a good idea, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan say. Scott Rick and Maurice Schweitzer conducted six [...]
Not With a Bang, But a Whimper
Posted in Science, tagged Dark Energy, Science, Universe on August 20, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
In elementary school, during astronomy class, we were taught all about the Big Bang and how scientists roughly agreed how the universe began. How it was to end, though, that was up for grabs. There were two possibilities: either the universe would eventually begin contracting in on itself, ultimately collapsing into a fiery point; or [...]
