Here is what I am reading today: good for the brain! (video gaming!) “Video gaming causes increases in the brain regions responsible for spatial orientation, memory formation and strategic planning as well as fine motor skills. This has been shown in a new study conducted at the Max Planck Institute Read more…
The weekend is coming! Some are partying, some are outdoors and some are studying and getting ahead! 😉 Here’s what I am reading: early humans on the midnight train in georgia “In 2005, researchers discovered a remarkably complete ancient hominin skull at Dmamisi, Georgia, a site that holds the earliest Read more…
Here is what we are reading today: the ICEMAN’S DNA in some modern Austrians “Their relationship was established through DNA analysis by scientists from the Institute of Legal Medicine at Innsbruck Medical University. The men have not been told about their connection to Oetzi. The DNA tests were taken from Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: teaching an elephant to point?? “”By showing that African elephants spontaneously understand human pointing, without any training to do so, we have shown that the ability to understand pointing is not uniquely human but has also evolved in a lineage of animal Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: invasion of the Nostril TICKS! “Tony Goldberg had been back from Uganda for only about a day when he felt a distressingly familiar itch in his nose. A veterinary epidemiologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, he had just spent a few weeks Read more…