Book questions popular beliefs

Source: San Diego Union-Tribune

Guy P. Harrison San Diego journalist Guy P. Harrison’s new book, “50 Popular Beliefs That People Think are True,” is a skeptical look at angels, psychics, UFOs, TV preachers and the like. Harrison will discuss his book ...
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Cells by Frederick McSwain

Source: MoCo Loco

"One day after school, I was taken to the county jail." (Click the images below for full sized images) Cells by Frederick McSwain is a re-imagining of a childhood memory in the form of objects and images and a thesis on how environmental fac ...
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Well-Connected White Nerve Fibers Key to Preserving the Mind of the Aging

Source: Big Think

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh have found that people with a well-integrated wiring of myelinated nerve fibers (white matter) in the brain will be sharper well into old age—when mental decline could potentially occ ...
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La Belle Verte and the Big Brained Beautiful

Source: WFMU's Beware of the Blog

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Soon, smartphones to remind you where you've put your keys

Source: New Kerala

The chip maker is to research hi-tech systems that will "learn" behaviours so they can offer advice, book meetings and even tell people where they usually lose their car keys. "Within five years all of the human senses will be in computers ...
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Bel Marra Health Supports a Recent Study Out of UCLA that Shows a Link...

Source: PRWeb

Bel Marra Health supports a recent study out of UCLA that shows a link between sugar and brain health CEO of Bel Marra Health Jim Chiang chimed in saying, “Those who are counting calories need to be conscious of fructose intake for a variety of reaso ...
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Blast from the past: This ev-psych bullshit must stop

Source: Reclusive Leftist

In the past week or so I’ve received a number of emails about a post I wrote several centuries ago (okay, actually it was just 5 years ago, but whatever): . I’m not entirely sure why this post is garnering current attention, though my spidey sense ...
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No New Neurons for Smell?

Source: Science

Do our brains continue to produce neurons throughout our lifetimes? That's been one of the most hotly debated questions in the annals of science. Since the 1950s, studies have hinted at the possibility, but not until the late 1990s did research prove ...
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The Five Worst Mistakes You Made as a New Grad

Source: The American Interest

It is college graduation season once again. Tens of thousands of intrepid young men and women are preparing to venture into a brave new world in which playing beer pong at one a.m. on a Wednesday night is no longer considered a point of pride. And w ...
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