You Wake up With a New Year’s Anxiety Hangover – This Is What’s Happening in Your Brain
Alcohol interferes with the consolidation and retrieval of memories, leading to confusion and uncertainty the next day. Photo: Akshar Dave / ...
What Do We Find Attractive in Each Other, and Why?
Much of our sense of what is attractive comes into focus when viewed through the lens of successful reproduction. Photo: Dimitri Kuliuk / Pexels ...
Crisco’s Revolutionary Advertising Techniques Made Americans Believers in Industrial Food
Helen Zoe Veit, Michigan State University Perhaps you’ll unearth a can of Crisco for the holiday baking season. If so, you’ll be one ...
This Ancient Memory Technique Is Older Than Our Western Civilisation, and Far More Effective
In Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective novel A Study in Scarlet (1887) we learn that Sherlock Holmes used the most effective memory system ...
Your Preference for a Specific Body Shape Is Shaped by Television – Study Reveals
Reachers at the University of Durham in the UK discovered that the more TV you watch, the more you prefer thinner female bodies. The ...
Saudade: The Untranslatable Portuguese Word for the Presence of Absence
Though akin to nostalgia or longing, Saudade has no direct equivalent in English. Photo: VisionPic / Pexels ‘I pray for friends I’ve ...
Your Mind Is the Key to Enjoying the Long Dark Cold Winter
Photo: Jacqueline Macou / Pixabay The dreaded winter season raises in many of us the question on how to survive the dark and cold? According ...