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Post-Christmas Midriff Bulge? Blame Norm

31/12/2013

Eating behaviors can be transmitted socially...

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Antibiotic Attack!

27/12/2013

Without effective antibiotics, any surgery – even minor ones – will become extremely risky....

Want to Perform? Get Excited

26/12/2013

It really does pay to be positive, and people should say they are excited. ...

Virgin Birth : The Scientific View

25/12/2013

0.5% of women affirmed their status as virgins and did not use assisted reproductive technology, yet reported virgin births...

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Weight Loss is Easier for White Women

22/12/2013

African-American women don't lose as much weight as Caucasian women in response to the same behavioral interventions of calorie restriction....

Fighting Festive Flab

18/12/2013

A daily bout of exercise generates vast physiological benefits even when you consume thousands of calories more than you are burning...

Getting Blind on Jailhouse Wine

16/12/2013

Went to a party in the county jail, threw my spleen up in a rusty pail....

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The Ideal Height for Altitude Training

13/12/2013

These findings suggest that there's a defined window for altitude living—between 2000 and 2500 meters—that can improve sea level performance in competitive runners....

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Applied Carpe Diem : Part 2

13/12/2013

What makes a person choose whether or not to end one’s own life? It comes back to that tradeoff, I suppose, between quality vs. quantity....

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Tonguetwisters twist the thoughts too

09/12/2013

Tongue twisters are not just fun to say; it turns out that these sound-related slip-ups can also open windows into the brain's speech-planning processes. ...

Facebook Makes Girls Feel Fat

04/12/2013

"Appearance exposure" on the Internet has been linked to body image disturbance among adolescent girls....

Sport Will Kill Ya

24/11/2013

Too much weekly sport seems to be as bad as too little for teen wellbeing....

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Gaming makes you samey.

23/11/2013

'the more competitive the gaming gets, the more in sync are the emotional responses of the players'. Computer game research suggests gameplayers become more like each other....

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Substances, Condoms and Women don’t get on.

20/11/2013

'when a woman has been dating a romantic partner for three months or more, marijuana use may increase the risk of unprotected sex'...

Flunking Sleepy Teenagers

13/11/2013

Teenagers who go to bed late during the school year are more prone to academic and emotional difficulties in the long run. News item...

Monkey Mindgames : The Brain-Machine Interface

08/11/2013

In a study led by Duke researchers, monkeys have learned to control the movement of both arms on an avatar using just their brain activity....

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Measuring Creativity

03/11/2013

A team of researchers led by a Michigan State University neuroscientist has created a quick but reliable test that can measure a person's creativity from single spoken words....

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Applied Carpe Diem : Perspectives on Dying.

29/10/2013

How would you live your life, if you knew there wasn’t much life left to live?...

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Why Does Your Heart Slow Down?

16/10/2013

One of the reasons for the age-dependent reduction in maximum heart rate is that aging depresses the spontaneous electrical activity of the heart's natural pacemaker...