The neuroscience of eating is a budding field that may have profound implications for how we understand, and ultimately defeat, the public health menace that is obesity.
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So strong has the role of neuroscience become in explaining our behavior that artists may have little choice but to tackle its premises in their works, particularly the novel, to elucidate characters.
There’s been a pretty cool design piece circulating the tumblrsphere in the past few days. It’s called The Window Socket and is designed by Kyuho Song and Boa Oh. It’s […]
So here’s a funny article on the sheer silliness and passive-aggressive hostility of the jargon that dominates the worlds of management, consultants, marketing, and all that. That world, it seems to me, […]
Isogloss maps are irresistible, even if they are about cucumbers
When I met my last spiritual teacher, the revered HWL Poonja, in 1986, he taught me how to be free. He was such a powerful teacher that within minutes of […]
Bill Westheimer’s current Kickstarter project, called Ascent: the evolution of analog man to digital man, imagines how man’s future evolution might happen, and what we might become.
Yoga may have additional effects over exercise plus simple relaxation in inducing health benefits through differential changes at the molecular level, according to a new scientific study.
Researchers have created the first successful method for bypassing the blood-brain barrier, opening new treatment options for patients suffering neurodegenerative diseases.
“Some experts worry that even with genetic counseling, people will over-interpret their test results, concluding that they can skip the sunscreen if they’re at low risk of skin cancer, for instance.”
Sleep scientists have begun recommending that schools start their classes later in the morning to account for the biological necessities of adolescents, who need more sleep than adults.
Bacteria-tainted produce can pose a serious threat to human health but current tests for disease take too long for food producers to use. Now a Boston company is building a faster test.
In China, authorities are asking how dangerous the avian flu virus might become. Thus far, there have been over a hundred reported cases and more than twenty deaths.
Food scientists are now discovering that the process of tasting food is one of the more complex things the brain is tasked to do, combining data from all our senses into one unified and delicious experience.
Over the last month, big news shook NewSpace and advanced the narrative of the industry. The stories’ main characters are not NewSpace companies with climactic reveals of technological breakthroughs. Instead, […]
“We should consider ourselves fortunate if we find our work so satisfying and meaningful, and if we can make a contribution until the end,” said Yale philosophy professor Shelly Kagan.
What’s the difference between a physician and a surgeon? If you were sick in the Middle Ages you had three options: the church, the local healer, and the physician. A […]
Awareness has become obliviousness. And that obliviousness is a result of neatly repeated, ideas that early detection equals survivorship, and a whole lot of women voluntarily losing their breasts.
Enter a rapidly changing world where a passionate scientist by the name of Isaac Newton burns political bridges in London, a royal astronomer, Edmond Halley, seeks a powerful formula from […]
Outside of religious circles, chastity until marriage has become a little-practiced virtue, but saving your body for a committed person is very much in line with feminist thought.
You spend a lot of time talking about sharing and alternatives to ownership when your child’s in preschool. In the morning story circle you don’t want to be an avaricious, […]
According to the debt-averse deficit hawk position fueling Republican budget proposals, we need to slash government spending to promote economic growth. That assumption relies on a 2010 research paper by two Harvard economists that we now know is studded with errors.
Our genome sequence does not determine everything that is going to happen to us throughout the rest of our lives.
Artists have to try to connect. They have to try to be very clear in what it is that their purpose is and what it is they’re conveying because otherwise, it’s just more stuff.
Companies like Facebook do have human rights responsibilities.
A student received a score of A+ for answering questions like “The Earth is billions of years old” by answering “False.”
Flipperbot, the robot in the video below, was designed to test how sea turtles and other real-life organisms move outside the water.
Rigorous review is not a new idea. In fact, it’s a method of evaluation that goes back to ancient Greece. It needs to be reclaimed.
Is innovation best pursued through fear or through long-term thinking?
If the maxim “Life finds a way” happens to hold true on a distant planet, it likely not to be our way.