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Hack Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Learning new things actually strengthens your brain — especially when you believe you can learn new things. It’s a virtuous circle: When you think you’re getting smarter, you study harder, making more nerve-cell connections, which in turn makes you ….

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May 4, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Why Children Get Lost Easily

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Adults readily integrate sight, sound, smell, taste and touch in their everyday lives without a second thought. But research is revealing that this is not the case with children. Two new studies hint that children under the age of eight only use one s…

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May 3, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, science | Comments Off 


The Theory of Multiple Intelligences

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Multiple intelligences is an educational theory, first developed by Howard Gardner, that describes an array of different kinds of “intelligences” exhibited by human beings. Gardner suggests that each individual manifests varying levels of these differe…

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April 27, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Philosophy, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Epigenetic Inheritance

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

What Genes Remember”It has long been known that an organism’s fate is not determined by genes alone. This much we can tell by observing identical twins, who over time tend to diverge both physiologically (developing differences in, say, height and post…

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April 24, 2008 | Filed Under , Life, science | Comments Off 

Urban Nomadism

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Humans have always migrated and travelled, without necessarily living nomadic lives. The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys. A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or subur…

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Dreamscape, Urbanities, science | Comments Off 

Flying Around In Anti-Gravity Cars

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Science is becoming ever more specialized; technology is increasingly a series of black boxes, impenetrable to but a few. Americans’ poor science literacy means that science and technology exist in a walled garden, a geek ghetto. We are a technocracy …

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April 21, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Dreamscape, science | Comments Off 

Two Kinds of Truth

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as…

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April 10, 2008 | Filed Under , Art, Books, Quotes, science | Comments Off 

Maybe Brown Is the Predominant Haircolor!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, Society, science | Comments Off 

Maybe Brown Is the Predominant Haircolor!

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Researchers analysed the wives and girlfriends of the world’s top 100 richest men to see if there is a predominant hair colour that they go for. The majority are brunettes, with 62 per cent of billionaires favouring women with dark…

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April 7, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, Society, science | Comments Off 

Memory & Monitoring

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Reconstructive Memory & Source Monitoring”Retrieving something from memory is a reconstructive process. An episode in memory is not stored in one place, but instead, features of the episode are stored all over the brain. Such features might include…

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April 2, 2008 | Filed Under , Commentary, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Tea Total

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Health, science | Comments Off 

Tea Total

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Green tea can help beat superbugs according to Egyptian scientists speaking March, 31, 2008 at the Society for General Microbiology’s 162nd meeting.The pharmacy researchers have shown that drinking green tea helps the action of important antibiotics i…

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April 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Alternative, Health, science | Comments Off 

Thinking Hard Is Free of Charge

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Your brain uses less power than your refrigerator light”The brain uses 12 watts of power, about the same amount of energy as in two large bananas. Curiously, even though the brain is very efficient, it’s an energy hog. It is only 3 per cent of the body…

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March 30, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Oddities, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

World Awaits End in Hole

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“More strife in Iraq. U.S. financial system in crisis. Rice prices soar. None of these headlines will matter a bit, though, if two men pursuing a lawsuit in a court in Hawaii turn out to be right. They think a giant particle accelerator that will begin…

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March 29, 2008 | Filed Under , Oddities, science | Comments Off 


Walk Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“If the mere thought of trudging round ice-bound playing fields at school was enough to bring you out in a cold sweat, the idea that exercise makes us happy might sound perverse. But, beyond the (potential) mood-lifting effects of fresh air and scenery…

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March 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Health, science | Comments Off 

The Adaptability of Your Brain

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Reading, says Wolf, changed history. More than that, it changes the brain. It creates new pathways in the brain, and, by doing this, makes us think in new ways. When you read, you see letters written on a page, then you recognise them as representatio…

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March 26, 2008 | Filed Under , Books, Literature, science | Comments Off 


The Power of Expectations

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Wine Experiment”Expectations have long been a topic of psychological research, and it’s well known that they affect how we react to events, or how we respond to medication. But in recent years, scientists have been intensively studying how expectat…

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March 1, 2008 | Filed Under , Psychology, science | Comments Off 

The Orgasm Ceiling

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Komisaruk’s lab has also studied the brains of women who say they can bring themselves to orgasm with thought alone. For some it’s a sexual thought that does the trick, he says, but for others it’s more abstract - something that has to do with focusin…

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February 12, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Philosophy, Psychology, science | Comments Off 

Freaky Observers

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The Boltzmann brain problem arises from a string of logical conclusions that all spring from another deep and old question, namely why time seems to go in only one direction. Why can’t you unscramble an egg? The fundamental laws governing the atoms …

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January 19, 2008 | Filed Under Oddities, science | Comments Off 


Big Pharma and Big Buck

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The makers of antidepressants like Prozac and Paxil never published the results of about a third of the drug trials that they conducted to win government approval, misleading doctors and consumers about the drugs’ true effectiveness, a new analysis …

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January 17, 2008 | Filed Under Health, Psychology, science | Comments Off 


Reconciling Body & Mind

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“The brain is often envisioned as something like a computer, and the body as its all-purpose tool. But a growing body of new research suggests that something more collaborative is going on - that we think not just with our brains, but with our bodies. …

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January 14, 2008 | Filed Under Psychology, science | Comments Off 


The Banality of Science

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Pleasure of Giving”Brown is now conducting an experimental study of Christmas shoppers to see if their attitudes affect how likely they are to get sick over the holidays.Her team of researchers has been scurrying around malls asking shoppers questi…

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December 29, 2007 | Filed Under Psychology, science | Comments Off 

The Altruistic Impulse

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Austin, TX – November 26, 2007 – Bazaarvoice, the market and technology leader in hosted social commerce applications that drive sales, today released the findings of a new survey conducted by the Keller Fay Group, a market research company focused…

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December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Society, science | Comments Off 


Primates and Philosophers

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

FDW: Basically, if your view is that human beings are an inherently aggressive species then the bonobo is problematic. If your view is that humans have all sorts of characteristics including being highly cooperative, then the bonobos are a very interes…

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December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Alternative, Society, science | Comments Off 

Monkey Business

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Don’t Underestimate Our Evolutionary RelativesChimpanzees have an extraordinary photographic memory that is far superior to ours, research suggests. Young chimps outperformed university students in memory tests devised by Japanese scientists.The findi…

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December 3, 2007 | Filed Under Isms, science | Comments Off 

Discuss Amongst Yourselves

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Sounds farfetched, but a University of Michigan study suggests that the more time you spend talking to other people - on the phone or face to face - the sharper your memory and your mind. Researchers first looked at data on a nationwide sampling of 3,…

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December 1, 2007 | Filed Under Health, science | Comments Off 

Self-sabotage & Success

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“New research shows that how people view their abilities in the workplace impacts how they respond to success. Dr. Jason Plaks, a social psychologist at the University of Toronto and Kristin Stecher, a research scientist at the University of Washington…

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November 28, 2007 | Filed Under Psychology, science | Comments Off 

The Human Paradox

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“We’re a species that is capable of almost dumbfounding kindness. We nurse one another, romance one another, weep for one another. Ever since science taught us how, we willingly tear the very organs from our bodies and give them to one another. And at …

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November 25, 2007 | Filed Under Psychology, Society, science | Comments Off 

The Dynamics of IQ

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Flynn’s most intriguing and controversial claim concerns the preponderant influence of the environment over genetic inheritance in determining intelligence. The direct effect of genes on IQ accounts for only 36 percent of IQ variance, Flynn tells us…

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November 23, 2007 | Filed Under Society, science | Comments Off 

The Haunted Spice of Memory

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

“Many years had elapsed during which nothing of Combray, save what was comprised in the theatre and the drama of my going to bed there, had any existence for me, when one day in winter, on my return home, my mother, seeing that I w…

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November 11, 2007 | Filed Under Commentary, Literature, Oddities, Perfume, science | Comments Off 


Goodbye Lone Cowboy

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

Goodbye Selfish Gene”The Darwinian prop of the lone cowboy rugged conservative bundle of selfish genes has now been pulled out from under the cowboy and the lone cowboy has suddenly collapsed into a mumbling baffled cartoon. Humans are pack animals. W…

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November 6, 2007 | Filed Under Psychology, Society, science | Comments Off 

The Unmade Bed

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

The Unmade Bed, not dated, Priscilla RobertsMy Bed, 1998, Tracey EminThe Unmade Bed, 1933, Robert ColquhounThe Unmade Bed, 1957, Imogen CunninghamResearch suggests that while an unmade bed may look scruffy it is also unappealing to house dust mites tho…

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October 27, 2007 | Filed Under Health, Life, science | Comments Off 

String Ducky

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

String Theory in Two Minutes (or Less)Columbia University physicist Brian Greene recently chose the winner of the String Theory in Two Minutes or Less user-generated video contest. Below the official winning video by Sandy Chase, a science TV producer …

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October 26, 2007 | Filed Under Oddities, science | Comments Off 

How Not To Be Racist

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

A rosy outlook on life make some people immune to racial prejudiceAbout 7 percent of white people actually show a distinct lack of racism on probing psychological tests, says psychologist Robert Livingston of Northwestern University. Recently Livingsto…

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October 26, 2007 | Filed Under Isms, Society, science | Comments Off 


Send in the Ladybirds

from Lou @ Moving and Shaking

More than 700,000 ladybirds have been released in two New York City housing complexes in an effort to kill insects without using artificial pesticides.The bugs can eat 50 aphids a day, and will lay more larvae in due course.When they arrived in Manhatt…

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October 22, 2007 | Filed Under Alternative, Oddities, Urbanities, science | Comments Off 

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