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so which is grosser – the inside of a handbag or ice at a fast food restaurant?
a 7th grader hypothesized that fast food restaurants’ ice would contain more bacteria than the fast food restaurants’ toilet water so he tested his hypothesis and and was right! anyone who has worked in the food service industry knows the ice machines are colonized and rarely cleaned so i wouldn’t be surprised if these results [...]
study finds bearded men are more attractive and bigger ( not just talking beards here ) not always better.
still no cure for cancer, but new research finds that bearded men are more attractive. now, some articles are running with the prove so-and-so wrong that my wooly mammoth beard is actually attractive angle but the original research shows that the effect peaks out at “heavy stubble” ( some old school web folks will be [...]
in a parallel universe, my tears are falling on my curriculum vitae.
i’m as much of a fan of pop neuroscience as the next person but new research published in the prestigious journal nature reviews neuroscience, “Power failure: why small sample size undermines the reliability of neuroscience”, concludes that much of what’s published is, well, worthless due to “low statistical power”. a long time ago, in a [...]
A New Take on the Famous Marshmallow Experiment
a new take on the famous marshmallow experiment: “The capacity for delayed gratification is not wholly innate.”
Study Exposes Multi-generational Impacts of Pesticide Exposure
research on water fleas demonstrates that even low dose exposure to some pesticides “..can cause significant health problems for those organisms later in life –and affect their offspring and, possibly, their offspring’s offspring.”. and lest you think this is limited to water fleas, this builds on research that has shown trangenerational effects in humans after [...]
the embodied mind, astrocytes and mouse chimeras, never quite now and what do whales see?
i subscribe to the embodied mind thesis which posits that the nature of the human mind is largely determined by the form of the human body and central to that theory is the concept of neurotransmission. i.e. we perceive and think through sensory tranmsissions integrated and mediated by neurons. so it’s remarkable to see new [...]
New Concerns About Plastic Pollution in Great Lakes ‘Garbage Patch’
as if the sediment pollution plumes weren’t reason enough to get skeeved out at the thought of swimming in the the great lakes, it turns out that new research shows the lakes have their very own version of the great pacific garbage patch consisting of tons of microscopic plastic particles that can’t be seen with [...]
the social psychology of human primates in elevators
the study of the the social psychology of human primates in elevators has a relatively long history, including contributions from a 1962 Candid Camera episode titled “Face the Rear” which showed how relatively easy it is to induce conformity to unusual “social norms” in the tight confines of an elevator which is just one way [...]
a mathematical formalization of the filter bubble.
new unsurprising research ( given the the cognitive basis for irrationality ) formalizes the concept of the “filter bubble” with a mathematical model of biased assimilation which leads to polarization which is a fancy way of proving that, “we look at the world with rose-colored blinders. We see what we want and ignore what doesn’t [...]
Children should be allowed to get bored, expert says
odin’s maker table has a copy of “how to do nothing with nobody all alone by yourself” sitting on it so we certainly don’t need much convincing of the correctness of new research that reinforces that “children should be allowed to get bored so they can develop their innate ability to be creative” which, amusingly, [...]
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