Monday: March 1, 2010
- New study shows that others just might know you better than you know yourself.
Similarly, if you think that you are warm and friendly, and your friends and family say even if you think along those lines, you don't come across that way, you might pay more attention to your behaviors.
Monday: February 22, 2010
- CNN would like to know just how scientific our superheros actually are.
This article seems like one giant lead-in to get you watch this YouTube video from the University of Minnesota regarding actual science of The Watchmen (of which I am not a big fan of) so click above and save yourself some time.
Monday: January 25, 2010
- Your brain just might be to blame for your bad video gaming skills.
The researchers recruited 39 healthy adults (10 men, 29 women) who had played fewer than three hours of video games each week during the previous two years. They then examined their brains with the aid of an MRI machine.
Monday: January 11, 2010
- Prolonged 3D sessions may be bad for your eyes. Who knew?
Experts say there are no studies tracking how common it is to get a headache after watching a 3D movie, but Rick Heineman, a spokesman for RealD, a provider of 3D equipment to theaters, said headaches and nausea were the chief reasons 3D technology never took off.
Wednesday: December 16, 2009
- Survey finds that television still more popular than the Interwebs for entertainment.
Yes, we all still turn to the television as the ultimate source of diversion. A staggering eighty percent of the survey claim to watch more than ten hours of non-movie television a week.
Monday: December 14, 2009
- Scientists deduce the best method in which to remove a Band-ADo it fasid.
The results will shock you. Ok, no they actually won't shock you at all. Do it fast and you'll have less pain. Don't you feel better knowing that this is scientifically proven now? No? Yea, me neither.
Monday: November 9, 2009
- Want to know just how much power your brain needs in order to function?
In a nutshell, a robot with a processor as intelligent as the human brain would require at least ten megawatts to operate. By contrast, a dimly lit light bulb takes about just twenty watts and Doc Brown was able to send Marty back to the future via 1.21 gigawatts (1210 megawatts).
Monday: November 2, 2009
- New study accidentally finds out that dreaming may increase ability to learn.
They found that the more Doom-dreaming a player did, the more likely he or she was to improve on these measures – but only up to a point. Volunteers who dreamed most about Doom didn't see the biggest gains.
Thursday: October 29, 2009
- Your genes may be the reason as to why you're a bad driver.
To their surprise, they found that those with the mutant gene did worse, consistently. The gene controls a protein called brain-derived neurotrophic factor, which affects memory.
Monday: October 26, 2009
- New study shows that clean smells can actually promote morale behavior.
The study titled 'The Smell of Virtue' was unusually simple and conclusive. Participants engaged in several tasks, the only difference being that some worked in unscented rooms, while others worked in rooms freshly spritzed with Windex.
Wednesday: October 14, 2009
- New study shows that chocolate and water can reduce heat pain response.
The context of ingesting was also important to whether eating or drinking blunted pain, the researchers found. When rats were made ill by a drug treatment, eating chocolate no longer delayed their response.
Thursday: October 8, 2009
- New study shows that Windows 7 doesn't boot up faster than Vista.
...a three-month-old machine can take up to a minute longer to boot, or 2 minutes and 34 seconds. Windows 7 did outperform Vista at the three-month and six-month marks but it generally 'trailed the older version significantly' in its boot-up tests.
Monday: October 5, 2009
- Nissan finds that emulating fish helps robotic cars avoid crashes.
The automaker studied how large schools of fish can move without colliding. It says Eporo imitates three rules of fish movement: avoiding crashes, traveling side by side, and keeping close to other members of the school.
Wednesday: September 30, 2009
- New study suggests that gamers are more aggresive towards strangers.
After the Onslaught matches, Geary and Oxford found that testosterone levels of the winning team members spiked immediately after the tournament, particularly among players who had contributed most to their team's victory.
Tuesday: September 29, 2009
- New study finds out that there might be a link between creativity and psychosis.
Volunteers with the specific variant of this gene were more likely to have higher scores on the creativity assessment and also greater lifetime creative achievements than volunteers with a different form of the gene.
Friday: September 25, 2009
- New study shows that time spent on social networks has tripled since last year.
You probably have Facebook open in another tab next to this one don't you? DON'T YOU?
Wednesday: September 23, 2009
- New study shows that quality of open source code is actually improving.
'Defect density' has dropped 16 percent during the past three years among the projects scanned through the site and some 11,200 defects have been eliminated, according to Coverity's latest report.
Tuesday: September 22, 2009
- Want to know why fall colors vary between continents?
A team of researchers has a new idea as to why the autumnal colors differ between the continents, one that involved taking a step back 35 million years in time.
Monday: September 21, 2009
- Eleven reasons why Apple is still studying the definetly not-rejected Google Voice application.
2. Code sent in hard to read Verdana font.
Tuesday: September 15, 2009
- Microsoft decides to give Bing some visual aids.
In a blog post, the company said a study it conducted found that consumers can process results with images 20% faster than text only results. 'It's like searching through a large online catalogue,' Microsoft said.
Wednesday: September 2, 2009
- New study discovers that playing Tetris might be good for your brain.
...the brain used less energy when it worked on familiar processing patterns. The girls who played Tetris also had a thicker cortex, meaning the game play triggered a structural change in the brain beyond the areas that became more efficient.
Thursday: August 27, 2009
- Turns out that our brains learn more from success rather than failure.
The researchers found that monkeys that were rewarded for the right response to a cue learned quickly how to respond the next time they saw the cue, but monkeys that responded incorrectly weren't any better equipped to deal with the same cue the next time they saw it.
Friday: August 21, 2009
- New study finds that smaller online ads perform better than giant skyscraper ads.
Don't you just love those ridiculous animated mortgage ads? The folks over at Miramax seem to as well.
- Turns out that walking in circles is a natural thing.
Researchers tested the popular notion and found that not only do people walk in circles if they have no guidance, but they do not favor left-handed circles, a common myth spurred from the fact that a heart leans to a person's left.
Wednesday: August 19, 2009
- There might be a link between health risks and video game playing in adults.
...players also reported lower extraversion, consistent with research on adolescents that linked video-game playing to a sedentary lifestyle and overweight status, and to mental-health concerns.
- You can blame global warming on ancient farmers says new study.
Ruddiman said that starting thousands of years ago, people would burn down a forest, poke a hole in the soil between the stumps, drop seeds in the holes and grow a crop on that land until the nutrients were tapped out of the soil. Then they would move on.
Tuesday: August 18, 2009
- Average age of video gamers older than originally thought.
Thirty-five is the new magic number according to recent study.
Saturday: August 15, 2009
Monday: August 10, 2009
- New study suggests that people get happier as they age.
They found older adults generally make the best of the time they have left and have learned to avoid situations that make them feel sad or stressed.
Thursday: July 30, 2009
- An examination of who is currently napping in America.
An interesting survey from the folks at NYT regarding snoozing habits.
