Sugar and Other Carbs May Be Damaging Your Memory, Among Several Crucial Brain Functions
Jul 10, 2014
Can Sex Make You Smarter?
Jan 14, 2014 Having trouble remembering key things due to the stress of the everyday grind? Forget your ginkgo biloba tablets, have some sex instead.
China’s Online Monitors Outnumber Its Soldiers
Oct 16, 2013 There are 2 million people surveilling Internet usage in China, half a million more than are safeguarding the country in its army; memory's fallibility is a good thing, according to some neuroscientists; meanwhile, the Fukushima disaster is enough evidence that all nuclear plants should be shut down. These discoveries and more after the jump.
Why Textbooks Should Be Written Like Facebook Posts
Jan 28, 2013 Curmudgeons the world over will tell you that TV makes you go blind and expressing ideas 140 characters at a time makes you soft in the head, but some actual scientists looked into this and the results were surprising.
Jet Lag Makes You Dumb (If You’re a Hamster)
Nov 18, 2010 Scientists gave some hamsters the frequent flier treatment and found that their brains birthed fewer neurons. The sleep-confused rodents also had learning and memory issues almost a month after their simulated travel ordeal.
50 Casualties of the Internet
Sep 10, 2009 The Internet has introduced a whole host of new marvels to the world, but as this list compiled by the U.K.’s Telegraph demonstrates, the Web giveth and the Web taketh away. And it has taken away a few things from users' lives that we might miss (see: "The art of polite disagreement") -- others, not so much (cf. "Sarah Palin").
McCain’s Senior Moment?
Oct 26, 2008 In response to former Secretary of State Colin Powell's endorsement of Barack Obama last week, John McCain boasted on "Meet the Press" of the five former secretaries of state who have thrown their support behind his own candidacy. Yet braggadocio ran into bungle when McCain tried to name all five, twice getting only to four,and looking a bit shaky in the process.
