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- December 12, 2011
- 11:25 AM
- 5,355 views
Alcohol causes risky sexual behavior
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Every glass of alcohol increases someones intention to engage in unsafe sex, according to researchers of the Toronto University. Important information, since unsafe sex is the most important pathway to HIV. ... Read more »
Rehm J, Shield K.D., Joharchi N., & Shuper P.A. (2011) Alcohol consumption and the intention to engage in unprotected sex: Systematic review and meta-analysis of experimental studies. Addiction. info:/doi:10.1111/j.1360-0443.2011.03621.x
- December 13, 2011
- 04:15 AM
- 4,877 views
Babies recognize word patterns before starting to talk
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Contrary to popular belief, grammar might be involved in first stages of language learning... Read more »
Jill Lany, & Jenny R. Saffra. (2011) Interactions between statistical and semantic information in infant language developmen. Developmental Science. info:/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01073.x
- December 12, 2011
- 07:40 AM
- 4,686 views
Body focus: How removing clothes changes the way the mind is perceived
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The research was performed by Kurt Gray, psychologist at the University of Maryland, along with colleagues from Yale and Northeastern University. What makes this research interesting is that unlike many previous studies, this one applies to both sexes and calls into question the role of objectification. The researchers argue that concentrating on someone’s physical characteristics doesn’t mean this person is perceived as a mindless object.... Read more »
Gray K, Knobe J, Sheskin M, Bloom P, & Barrett LF. (2011) More than a body: Mind perception and the nature of objectification. Journal of personality and social psychology, 101(6), 1207-20. PMID: 22059848
- December 12, 2011
- 07:41 AM
- 4,672 views
Chimpanzees more closely related to humans than previously thought
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It is very uncommon for animals other than humans to share food if not for kin-based transfer. One of the exceptions is the ape, which, according to different studies, shares meat in order to achieve a certain goal, or to please the more dominant apes within the group. A new study which will soon be published in Primates Journal (already available online), explains how chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senegal, share not only meat but also wild-plant foods and tools, a behavioral adaptation that makes the........ Read more »
Jill D. Pruet, & Stacy Lindshiel. (2011) Plant-food and tool transfer among savanna chimpanzees at Fongoli, Senega. Primates. info:/10.1007/s10329-011-0287-
- December 13, 2011
- 07:30 PM
- 4,637 views
No difference between math abilities of men and women
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There’s a longstanding myth about the existence of a “gender gap” between boys’ and girls’ math performance. Now, a new international study contradicts the idea that girls are worse at math due to biological differences. Instead, the researchers linked differences in math performance to sociocultural factors.... Read more »
Jonathan M.Kane, & Janet E. Mertz. (2011) Debunking Myths about Gender and Mathematics Performance. Notices of the American Mathematical Society. info:/10.1090/noti790
- December 13, 2011
- 06:44 AM
- 4,491 views
Discovery of the world’s tiniest frogs
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Researchers have found the world’s smallest frogs in southeastern New Guinea. The frogs, discovered by Fred Kraus and colleagues from Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii, belong to the genus Paedophryne, all of whose species are extremely small. ... Read more »
Kraus, F. (2011) At the lower size limit for tetrapods, two new species of the miniaturized frog genus Paedophryne (Anura, Microhylidae). ZooKeys, 71. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.154.1963
- December 10, 2011
- 09:00 AM
- 4,057 views
Cursing soothes your pain
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No acces to painkillers after bumping your head? Just shout out all the bad, vulgair, and profane words you can think of. New research shows that swearing actually relieves your pain. But don’t curse to often, overuse of swearing decreases the beneficial effect.... Read more »
Stephens, R., & Umland, C. (2011) Swearing as a Response to Pain—Effect of Daily Swearing Frequency. The Journal of Pain, 12(12), 1274-1281. DOI: 10.1016/j.jpain.2011.09.004
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 2,387 views
Bisexuality is natural for women
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Researchers at the Boise State University have found that most women are bisexual by nature. Also, they discovered that these bisexual feelings increase with age. During this study, 484 heterosexual women were surveyed. 60 percent of them said to be sexually attracted to other women, 45 percent had already kissed with a woman en about half of the participants had fantasized about it.... Read more »
Morgan EM, & Thompson EM. (2011) Processes of sexual orientation questioning among heterosexual women. Journal of sex research, 48(1), 16-28. PMID: 19941193
- June 1, 2012
- 09:59 AM
- 2,051 views
The LSD Elephant in the Room
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To be fair: the two researchers responsible hadn’t meant to kill elephant Tusko, when they injected 297 milligrams of LSD (about 3000 times the level of a typical human dose) into his vains. ... Read more »
West, L., Pierce, C., & Thomas, W. (1962) Lysergic Acid Diethylamide: Its Effects on a Male Asiatic Elephant. Science, 138(3545), 1100-1103. DOI: 10.1126/science.138.3545.1100
- December 5, 2011
- 10:58 AM
- 1,928 views
Feel bad about something? Maybe you should give it a rest
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How many times, when troubled, we’ve heard the phrase “tomorrow will be another day”? The new day might not bring the solution for every kind of problem but, in fact, will enable us to reflect on things in a calm and rational fashion. This is stated in a recent study by Matthew Walker, a neuroscientist at the University of California, Berkeley.... Read more »
van der Helm E, Yao J, Dutt S, Rao V, Saletin JM, & Walker MP. (2011) REM Sleep Depotentiates Amygdala Activity to Previous Emotional Experiences. Current biology : CB. PMID: 22119526
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 1,717 views
Many Vegetarians Consume Animal-Derived Products in Medicines
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What should vegetarians do when medicines contain animal products? The answer seems an easy one: to refuse them or to act according to their conscience. But what if the consumers are not appropriately informed about the medicine components, or the doctors not even know that it contains animal products?... Read more »
Vissamsetti, B., Payne, M., & Payne, S. (2012) Inadvertent prescription of gelatin-containing oral medication: its acceptability to patients. Postgraduate Medical Journal. DOI: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2011-130306
- October 19, 2011
- 07:26 AM
- 1,704 views
Amount of Facebook friends is reflected in human brain structure
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In Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, British and Danish researchers stress that the relationship between the amount of Facebook friends and human brain structure is a correlation-not a causal relationship. In other words, it has not been shown that by adding more Facebook friend, your brain will grow in size.... Read more »
R. Kanai, B. Bahrami, R. Roylance, & G. Rees. (2011) Online social network size is reflected in human brain structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. info:/
Bickart KC, Wright CI, Dautoff RJ, Dickerson BC, & Barrett LF. (2011) Amygdala volume and social network size in humans. Nature neuroscience, 14(2), 163-4. PMID: 21186358
- October 13, 2011
- 07:04 AM
- 1,629 views
Math helps with identification of terrorists
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According to research by Professor Herbert Hamers and two other researchers at Tilburg University mathematical methods and game theory can help identify key players and their hierarchy in terrorist networks.... Read more »
Roy H. A. Lindelauf, Herbert Hamers, & Bart Husslage. (2011) Game Theoretic Centrality Analysis of Terrorist Networks: The Cases of Jemaah Islamiyah and Al Qaeda. SSRN. info:/
- October 14, 2011
- 07:30 AM
- 1,627 views
Children understand dog language
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Bark Bark! What’s that Lassie? Marie fell down a well and can’t get out anymore? Take me to her!
Lassie’s owner Timmy always exactly seem to know what his dog was trying to tell him. Now according to researchers at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest (Hungary) this might not have been as far-fetched as it might seem. They found that children are much better able than adults to interpret dog barking... Read more »
Péter Pongráczemail, Csaba Molnár, Antal Dóka, & Ádám Miklósi. (2011) Do children understand man's best friend? Classification of dog barks by pre-adolescents and adults. Applied Animal Behaviour Science. info:/
- February 23, 2012
- 03:00 PM
- 1,610 views
Maya Civilization Collapsed Due to Mild Droughts, Scientists Suggest
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The study was conducted by two paleoclimatologists, Martin Medina-Elizalde and Eelco Rohling, who analysed “four of the most detailed paleoclimate records of the event” to estimate the water levels of the Lake Chichancanab, in the Yucatan Peninsula, and the annual precipitation in the area, which comprised the so-called Maya lowlands. ... Read more »
Medina-Elizalde, M., & Rohling, E. (2012) Collapse of Classic Maya Civilization Related to Modest Reduction in Precipitation. Science, 335(6071), 956-959. DOI: 10.1126/science.1216629
- November 18, 2011
- 10:43 AM
- 1,589 views
New experiments confirm it: some particles move faster than light
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In September, a bunch of scientists at CERN claimed that they had found particles that could travel faster than the speed of light. This particles, also known as neutrinos, could travel 730 km in 2.43 milliseconds. This means that these particles travel this distance 60 nanoseconds faster than light does. ... Read more »
Carlo R. Contaldi. (2011) The OPERA neutrino velocity result and the synchronisation of clocks. ARXIV. arXiv: 1109.6160v2
- November 12, 2011
- 05:04 AM
- 1,570 views
A woman’s lip shape hints at her ability to achieve vaginal orgasms
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Stuart Brody, a psychology professor at the University of the West of Scotland, claims that you can discern a woman’s ability to achieve orgasm just by looking at her lips.... Read more »
Brody S, & Costa RM. (2011) Vaginal orgasm is more prevalent among women with a prominent tubercle of the upper lip. The journal of sexual medicine, 8(10), 2793-9. PMID: 21676178
Nicholas A, Brody S, de Sutter P, & de Carufel F. (2008) A woman's history of vaginal orgasm is discernible from her walk. The journal of sexual medicine, 5(9), 2119-24. PMID: 18637995
- November 30, 1999
- 12:00 AM
- 1,567 views
Dizziness When Standing Up Linked to Greater Risk of Heart Failure: Research
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Many people feel suddenly dizzy when they stand up too quickly. This is caused by orthostatic hypotension, a rapid drop in blood pressure. Now a team of scientists at the University of North Carolina suggest that people with orthostatic hypotension might have a greater risk of developing heart failure.... Read more »
Jones, C., Loehr, L., Franceschini, N., Rosamond, W., Chang, P., Shahar, E., Couper, D., & Rose, K. (2012) Orthostatic Hypotension as a Risk Factor for Incident Heart Failure: The Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities Study. Hypertension. DOI: 10.1161/HYPERTENSIONAHA.111.188151
- October 31, 2011
- 06:50 AM
- 1,563 views
The story of Vladimir Demikhov's two-headed dog
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Since it's Halloween today we are going to feature some of the maddest scientists that have ever lived. Starting with Vladimir Demikhov and his gruesome two headed dog. The included video is not for the faint of heart. ... Read more »
Konstantinov IE. (2009) At the cutting edge of the impossible: a tribute to Vladimir P. Demikhov. Texas Heart Institute journal / from the Texas Heart Institute of St. Luke's Episcopal Hospital, Texas Children's Hospital, 36(5), 453-8. PMID: 19876428
- February 8, 2012
- 09:11 AM
- 1,540 views
Small Primate Communicates in High-Pitched Sounds Inaudible to Humans
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US researchers have discovered that Philippine Tarsier can “talk” within the pure ultrasound domain, this is, above human hearing capacity.... Read more »
Ramsier, M., Cunningham, A., Moritz, G., Finneran, J., Williams, C., Ong, P., Gursky-Doyen, S., & Dominy, N. (2012) Primate communication in the pure ultrasound. Biology Letters. DOI: 10.1098/rsbl.2011.1149
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