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The Meaning of Pupil Dilation
From The Scientist magazine, a really interesting roundup about pupil diliation and what it can tell us about human cognition. It’s an old subject, but finding many new applications and helping create new insights (no pun intended). The Meaning of … Continue reading
More bad news for Ibuprofen during exercise
I’ve written about how ibuprofen may interfere with muscle development when taken after exercise, but it is not good to take during exercise either. For a while it has been known that it can cause people to ignore damage happening … Continue reading
Risk Management: The underestimated cost of Lyme disease
The New York Times Magazine has an article on Ina Drew, who was supposed to oversee trading operations at JP Morgan and was reportedly a great risk manager. But her unit lost $5 billion. To me, the underplayed role in … Continue reading
The link between imagination, sickle cell anemia and human success
On a beach run this morning I was listening to the Fresh Air interview with Jonah Lehrer, author of the book Imagine, which discusses how we get creative insights. Lehrer’s ideas about the nature of the creative process made me … Continue reading
Secrets of building courage, from mixed martial arts
Three ways to build courage, reduce anxiety and improve performance, from the world of mixed martial arts: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-athletes-way/201201/building-bulletproof-courage
Foxp2
An interesting article published in Nature about FoxP2 (Forkhead box protein 2) gene, which has been shown to be critical for learning speech. Discovered first in a British family with inherited speech problems, foxp2 has been shown to have two … Continue reading
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Sleep, “energy” and mood
A new study using twitter to evaluate mood over the course of the day reveals that people’s mood rises in the morning, lowers in the afternoon, then rises again in the evening. Hmmm. Where have I seen that curve before? … Continue reading
You don’t know how to tie your shoes
It turns out nearly all of us have been tying our shoes wrong since we learned. I’ve done it the way this guy does it now for a week and it really works–no more double knots and it still stays … Continue reading
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One way exercise might boost memory
It’s been shown for a while that exercise leads to increased production of nerve cells, and that exercise improves brain function. Tara Parker Pope writes about a study in which people were given memory tests while in an imaging machine, … Continue reading
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Venture Capital and Intelligence Tech
As part of my story on Michael Crow, I recently interviewed Christopher Darby, the president of a company called In-Q-Tel (Crow is chairman of the board), which has been around for about ten years, although I had never heard of … Continue reading