For pregnant women, continuous anxiety and mental strain could cause babies to be underweight and nutrition-deprived at birth, according to a recent study. So, it’s important not to stress about your stress levels.
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What do our brains look like when we read aloud? What about when we read to ourselves? To your brain, it’s the same thing.
Stress causes us to feel threatened, and even if the “threat” is something as small as a test, our minds shift into self-preservation mode, which may cause us to make immoral decisions.
In a world where the future of seemingly everything is online, museums — those repositories of the past — seem to resist the internet’s full digital embrace. It’s a question that’s increasingly crossed my mind thanks to a series of unrelated stories that share two common questions — how do people use museums now and how will they in the future? For every digital breakthrough enticing us to step on the virtual gas comes a cautionary tale reminding us to pump those virtual brakes. Ultimately, the online revolution is coming to museums, but is the future of museums really online?
A day after forecasters unanimously predicted a snowstorm of epic proportions for New York City, and the mayor ordered eight million people to stay off the roads, the predictions failed to materialize. The city received inches of snow rather than the feet predicted. A good thing, to be sure, but how did such dire predictions miss the mark?
The degree to which the online abuse occurs could necessitate anything from a simple Facebook block to, in more dire cases, a call to the police.
The makers of Oculus unveiled a new project concerned with exploring the burgeoning realm of VR cinema.
Being bilingual does offer cognitive benefits. Exactly what those benefits are, however, may have been overstated and misconstrued.
How self-aware we are during the day can affect how we experience dreams, possibly helping us achieve states of lucid dreaming.
Messy workspaces have their benefits–some research suggests that the clutter makes people more creative. But there’s another aspect to the clutter, which may be undermining your ability to persevere through a difficult task.
Is it too complicated to squeeze helping others into your schedule? Be guilty no more. “Now, there is an app for that,” jokes Hans Jørgen Wiberg in his TEDxCopenhagen talk, […]
Loneliness is known to cause depression in people, however, social isolation can also have physiological effects, namely, cardiovascular disease. A new study offers further proof to show how heavy isolation can weigh on the heart.
Men and women respond differently to the prospects of parenthood. But a recent study delves into the details of these dynamics and how they can affect the future of a relationship.
The future of stars like our own, in a story only pictures can tell. “I lie on the floor, washed by nothing and hanging on. I cry at night. I […]
Life coach and author Tony Robbins had entered the world of personal finance with his latest book.
“Humans are allergic to change. They love to say, ‘We’ve always done it this way.’ I try to fight that. That’s why I have a clock on my wall that runs counter-clockwise.”
Anxious parents tend to lecture when conversing with their kids about topics like drugs and sex. Therapist Holly Brown says it’s better to open your ears a little.
Americans aren’t getting enough sleep for a multitude of reasons. But a new study shows that we should really be making time for sleep during our younger and middle-age years if we want to retain our minds as we get older.
Is working from home good for business? A recent study has found that it is: productivity goes up, staff turn-over goes down, and job-satisfaction increases.
With superhuman speed, strength and precision, how far could the man of steel hit a baseball? “If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He’s […]
Amit Sood, professor of medicine at the Mayo Clinic wants to help the general public benefit from recent esoteric advances in neuroscience.
The Sony corporation is still picking up the pieces after suffering a devastating cybersecurity breach in November. The company announced this week that it will miss the deadline to post its third-quarter earnings report.
Electroceuticals — electrical signals used to trick the brain into thinking the gut is full — have been approved by the FDA to treat obesity.
Personality and intelligence do help lift people from poverty in America, lending some plausibility to the American dream in which hard work and stick-to-it-iveness improve one’s lot in life.
The nonprofit sector is unfairly geared toward large, mainstream organizations that take in the most money but don’t adequately engage with the people most affected by a problem.
A new group unaffiliated with the Girl Scouts of America empowers young girls to advocate against racial inequality.
The recession is on its way out and, with it, so goes the hirer’s job market. When conducting interviews, remember that your job is to disqualify wrong candidates while simultaneously keeping good ones from getting away.
The noted Mexican painter wrote in her diary of the solidarity she feels with others like her who feel like “the strangest person in the world.”
The Foundation’s big bet: “the lives of people in poor countries will improve faster in the next 15 years than at any other time in history. And their lives will improve more than anyone else’s.”
Sports physiologist Dr. Allen Lim and expert chef Biju Thomas first joined forces at the 2008 Tour de France in an attempt to wean athletes off processed energy bars.