Researchers Say: Fill Your Bladder To Clear Your Mind. Before you make any life-altering decisions in the future, you may want to guzzle a few liters of water.
At least, that’s according to new research that found that people with water-filled bladders are better at making decisions about their future—a finding that not only counters common sense, but also flies in the face of past psychological consensus. Lead author of the study published in Psychological Science, Mirjam Tuk, a scientist at the Netherland’s University of Twente, landed upon this unique research topic after she drank too much coffee during a lengthy lecture. The Decline Effect Is Stupid. Is there something wrong with the scientific method?
Asks Jonah Lehrer in The New Yorker. Charles Limb: Your brain on improv. Long-term potentiation. Long-term potentiation (LTP) is a persistent increase in synaptic strength following high-frequency stimulation of a chemical synapse.
Studies of LTP are often carried out in slices of the hippocampus, an important organ for learning and memory. Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Lab. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program was established at Princeton University in 1979 by Robert G.
Jahn. Despite the name, the project had little to do with engineering but rather was dedicated to the study of parapsychology.[1] PEAR's primary purpose was to engage in parapsychological exercises purporting to examine telekinesis and remote viewing.[2] The program had a strained relationship with Princeton, and was considered "an embarrassment to science. "[3][4] The laboratory concluded its University-based operations in February 2007.[4] Parapsychological Activities[edit] References[edit] External links[edit] The New York Times > New York Region > 'Excuse Me. May I Have Your Seat?' Published: September 14, 2004 hirty years ago, they were wide-eyed, first-year graduate students, ordered by their iconoclastic professor, Dr.
Stanley Milgram, to venture into the New York City subway to conduct an unusual experiment. Their assignment: to board a crowded train and ask someone for a seat. Then do it again. And again. 2 Unlimited - Twilight Zone. Two planets found sharing one orbit - space - 24 February 2011. Update on 5 March: Lead researcher Jack Lissauer says: "Further study of the light curve of this target produced an alternative interpretation wherein one of the co-orbital candidates (KOI 730.03) has a period that is twice what we originally estimated.
We think that this new interpretation, without co-orbital candidates, is more likely to be correct. We will continue to acquire Kepler data and ground-based observations ... so we can reach a better understanding of this interesting, multi-resonant, system. " Kajouji's video diary shows path to suicide - Ottawa. Nadia Kajouji started her first year at Carleton University as a bright, happy, ambitious young woman.
((Nadia Kajouji's family)) A student from Brampton, Ont., who threw herself into Ottawa's Rideau River in March 2008 struggled with an unplanned pregnancy, a miscarriage, a crushing breakup, and escalating mental health problems in the months leading up to her death, her video diary shows. "Yes, I am depressed," Nadia Kajouji tells the video camera in one video blog entry relating a conversation with her doctor.
"'I have postpartum mood disorder, clinical depression and insomnia.' Tachyon. Because a tachyon would always move faster than light, it would not be possible to see it approaching.
After a tachyon has passed nearby, we would be able to see two images of it, appearing and departing in opposite directions. The black line is the shock wave of Cherenkov radiation, shown only in one moment of time. This double image effect is most prominent for an observer located directly in the path of a superluminal object (in this example a sphere, shown in grey). The right hand bluish shape is the image formed by the blue-doppler shifted light arriving at the observer—who is located at the apex of the black Cherenkov lines—from the sphere as it approaches. What Finland and Asia tell us about real education reform. There has been much publicity in recent years about how for more than a decade, Finnish students have excelled in the international comparisons called the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), exams given each three years in reading, math, and science to samples of 15-year-olds globally.
In the current issue of the New Republic, Samuel E. Abrams, a visiting scholar at Teachers College, explains what Finland did to turn around its education system, starting in the 1970's: Finland’s schools weren’t always so successful. In the 1960s, they were middling at best. In 1971, a government commission concluded that, poor as the nation was in natural resources, it had to modernize its economy and could only do so by first improving its schools. Meet Diania the walking cactus, an early cousin of life’s great winners. Around 520 million years ago, a walking cactus roamed the Earth.
Its body had nine segments, each bearing a pair of armour-plated legs, covered in thorns. It was an animal, but one that looked more like the concoction of a bad fantasy artist. Jianni Liu from Northwest University in Xi’an discovered this bundle of spines and named it Diania cactiformis – the “walking cactus from Yunnan”. And she thinks that it sits at the roots of the most successful group of animals on the planet. 15 Fascinating Facts on Human Attraction. Lucy Temerlin. A famous picture of Lucy Temerlin and her caretaker Janis Carter hugging about a year before Lucy's death Lucy (1964–1987)[1] was a chimpanzee owned by the Institute for Primate Studies in Oklahoma, and raised by Maurice K. Temerlin, Ph.D., a psychotherapist and professor at the University of Oklahoma and his wife, Jane. Amazonian Guard. The Amazonian Guard (also "the Amazons") was an unofficial name given by Western journalists to an all-female elite cadre of bodyguards officially known as الراهبات الثوريات (al-rāhibāt al-thawriyyāt) "The Revolutionary Nuns", and sometimes also unofficially called "the Green Nuns", tasked with protecting the former leader of Libya, Muammar Gaddafi.[1] Formation[edit] The group was formed in the early 1980s, after Gaddafi's official resignation as Libyan head of state in favour of the title of "Brotherly Leader and Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya".
According to Joseph T. Training[edit] Incidents[edit] How to win Rock-paper-scissors every time. I admit it. When I first heard there are actual tournaments for Rock-paper-scissors, sanctioned by the World Rock Paper Scissors Society, I laughed. I mean seriously, $50k to the winner of a game that requires no skill whatsoever?
Absurd. Boy was I wrong. Rock-paper-scissors isn't just a silly game kids play or a way to decide who has to be the designated driver at parties. 7 Myths Mythbusters Proved That We Still Can't Believe Are True. ? Mythbusters! Nerd porn of the highest order! Mr. Wizard for grown-ups — with explosions! For over seven years we’ve watched Adam and Jamie’s Odd Couple act, watched Grant build the awesomest of machines, watched Tory hurt himself, and watched Kari… well, just watched Kari, really. Attention, Ladies: Semen is An Antidepressant. Perhaps you're familiar with the McClintock effect, the observation that when groups of reproductive-age women live or work together (in college housing, the military, all-female workplaces, etc.), over time their menstrual periods tend to become synchronized. The accepted explanation is that the women detect each other's pheromones, subtle scents that each of us produce, and somehow these only-faintly aromatic but powerful compounds influence the women's hormones and make their menstrual periods arrive around the same time.
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Some of the issues below are commonly recognized as unsolved problems; i.e., it is generally agreed that no solution is known. Others may be described as controversies; i.e., while there is no common agreement about the answer, there are established schools of thought that believe they have a correct answer. Confessions of a Car Salesman — Edmunds.com. Car Buying Articles Republished: 05/04/2009 (Original Date: 01/18/2001) The Brick Testament. UC Berkeley Press Release. Octopus Kills Shark. Can You Live Forever? Maybe Not. Solar eclipse. CCNSs.gif (988×200) The powerful and mysterious brain circuitry that makes us love Google, Twitter, and texting. - By Emily Yoffe. Scientists say dolphins should be treated as 'non-human persons' // Current. Why are the East of Cities usually Poorer? Vietnam's Mammoth Cavern - Photo Gallery.
Sociopaths in the media: Mark Zuckerberg, Lisbeth Salander. The Insanity Virus. The Metal Marvel That Has Mended Brains for 50 Years. Eliminating dopamine turns fruit flies into masochists. Consciousness, group consciousness, mind. Alan Watts - Oriental Philosophy - Bigger Wiggle. Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields. Psychedelic experience. Think Science Now. History of Western subcultures in the 20th-century. DNA identifies new ancient human dubbed 'X-woman' Language determines colors you see. Verbal vs. mathematical aptitude in academics. Is long-term solitary confinement torture? All That Is Interesting - The Migration Patterns Of Humanity. Why there is no talent — Timeless. Language Log. Welcome to the LINGUIST List. Researchers Create Mice From Two Fathers. Electron microscopic water bear. Daemin comments on Which one movie blew your mind? Indie Squid Kid » blanket octopus.
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Have we found the universe that existed before the Big Bang? Einstein's Riddle. Test Results. AMA. A guy that feels no physical pain due to CIP/A. : IAmA. Micro Carvings Make Metals Glisten In Any Colour The Fascinating Story of the Twins Who Share Brains, Thoughts, and Senses. The 'Highest' Spot on Earth? : Krulwich Wonders…