You can predict with 93% accuracy whether or not a couple will still be married 14 years from now solely based on how often you notice four behaviors occurring in a single, 15-minute conversation.
Authorities recently stopped wildlife smugglers trying to carry hundreds of endangered tortoises through Thailand. But the story only got weirder from there.
In a cup or two a day, the caffeine in coffee tweaks us out enough to be the driving force behind the workforce. Ingest all the coffee that they did on Friends, however, and you’ll be asking yourself, “could I be…any more dead?”
I concede that there could be a few neat uses for these gizmos, perhaps in a surgical suite, on the factory floor or to guide a disoriented Alzheimer’s patient on the walk home. Beyond special needs, I just don’t get it.
Let’s put aside the fact that Fred Flintstone basically runs to work and therefore doesn’t really need his wheels (or that he would need the quads of a god to get them moving).
The reason why these avatars might actually make a difference has to do with the fact that at the end of the day, there’s a part of our brains that never quite made it out of high school.
If people had the ability to resurrect extinct species (dubbed “de-extinction”), should we direct our energy and resources towards it?
You can do yoga all day, you can run or bike or swim, but a pull-up will still be hard. It’s not that you have to be a juiced-up “lunk” to do one; it’s a matter of physics.
Just like any addictive substance, you eventually need more and more of it to get your “fix” as your brain adjusts. So do be careful around cookies.
Two prominent neuroscientists have published a commentary in the Feb. 28th Nature suggesting that video games might be crafted to improve brain function and enhance personal well-being.
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