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Category Archives: Science and Medicine
Opinion: How to Give Better Talks | The Scientist Magazine
My colleague Dave Rubenson outlines the sins of scientist presenters and gives advice on how to improve scientific presentations. For me the key point is this: Realize that a slide presentation is not a journal article. Slide presentations can stimulate … Continue reading
A scientific strategy for learning
This is a nice comprehensive blog entry about memorizing things through Spaced repetition. There is a lot of neuroscience that shows that neural circuits “learn” (attain permanent state changes) based on repeated firing of the right circuits. And they learn optimally … Continue reading
Malcolm Gladwell: Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair? : The New Yorker
In the New Yorker, Malcom Gladwell asks a strange question: Do Genetic Advantages Make Sports Unfair? Anyone who was ever picked last for baseball laughs at this question. Anyone who is a “hard gainer” in the weight room shakes his head. … Continue reading
How Exercise Changes Fat and Muscle Cells
More great work on how exercise changes not only our bodies, but also, effectively, our genes. …studies have found that exercise has an equally profound effect on DNA methylation within human muscle cells, even after a single workout. How Exercise Changes … Continue reading
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Exercise in a Pill? The Search Continues – NYTimes.com
I’ve wondered how much people would pay if all the benefits of exercise were available in a pill. Now some researchers are talking about doing just that. But it seems to me they are talking about only a part of … Continue reading
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How Aspirin Might Stem Cancer
More reason to take daily anti-inflammatories. How Aspirin Might Stem Cancer – NYTimes.com.
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Michael Douglas says cunnilingus gives you cancer – but is he right?
Oral cancer: another cancer ascribed to HPV infection. The statistic that jumped out at me was that there are almost as many people (men?) who get HPV related throat cancer as there are women who get HPV related cervical cancer. … Continue reading
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Is It Better to Walk or Run?
The New York Times has a story on whether walking or running is better for health, and one of the observations is that running is better for weight control. Running, it turns out, is more of an appetite suppressant, which … Continue reading
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Watching Your Brain Freak Out on a Scanner Calms You Down
In a quirky new experiment, researchers at Yale University found that simply showing people what their anxious brains look like was enough to help those subjects lessen their anxiety. The participants in the study even learned how to control activity … Continue reading
Can Cholesterol Drugs Undo Exercise Benefits?
This is a dramatic difference: The unmedicated volunteers improved their aerobic fitness significantly after three months of exercise, by more than 10 percent on average. But the volunteers taking the statins gained barely 1 percent on average in their fitness, … Continue reading
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