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Sleep: 1964 vs 2014
Further reasons for proclaiming the Boomer generation’s time as the high-water mark: People are sleeping between one and two hours less than in the 1960s due to the increased pressure of life and modern technology which makes it hard to … Continue reading
Multiverse
Amir Alexander reviews Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by By Max Tegmark: Zooming through a Stockholm intersection on his bicycle one morning, 18-year-old Max Tegmark never saw the truck that hit him. The blast … Continue reading
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Galaxies
Phil Plait writes: What happens when you take a 2.4-meter telescope, launch it into space, and command it to stare at one spot in the sky for a solid 14 hours, taking data both in visible light (like our eyes … Continue reading
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Alzheimer’s is Racist
From Science Daily: The risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease among older African Americans may be two to three times greater than in the non-Hispanic white population, new research suggests, and that they differ from the non-Hispanic white population in risk … Continue reading
Research on Psychedelics
Aeon has a good article on psychiatric research into the use of psychedelics to treat the anxieties associated with cancer: On a bone-chilling morning in February last year, Nick Fernandez bundled up and took the subway from his Manhattan apartment … Continue reading
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Racism Causes Fat Black Chicks
From an article in the American Journal of Epidemiology: Frequent experiences of racism were associated with a higher risk of obesity among African American women, findings from a recent study have demonstrated. These results suggest that the relationship between racism … Continue reading
German Burnout
In the Times Literary Supplement, Anna Schaffner has an excellent essay on the topic of ‘burnout’ as it is currently playing out in Germany: One of the abiding refrains in exhaustion theories, both past and present, is the idea that … Continue reading
Blacks Happier At Work Than Whites
Over the years, I’ve noticed studies supporting the thesis that blacks, overall, are happier than whites. How can that be? After all, with Whitey’s rampant ‘discrimination’ and ‘oppression’ of blacks everywhere we look, how could said blacks have smiles on … Continue reading
Development of Children’s ‘Prelife’ Reasoning
Here’s the abstract of a Boston University study led by postdoctoral fellow Natalie Emmons and published in the January 16, 2014 online edition of Child Development: By examining children’s ideas about “prelife,” the time before conception, researchers found results which … Continue reading
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Blue-Eyed Hunter-Gatherers Roamed Prehistoric Europe, Gene Map Reveals
Genetic analysis of a “7,000-year-old Spaniard” reveals that “early Europeans sported blue eyes and dark skin.” From National Geographic: Mapping the blue-eyed boy’s genes is part of ongoing effort to uncover the DNA of ancient humans. The new study in … Continue reading