Daniel Wegner introduced the concept of “ironic processes” as follows: “It sometimes seems that our desires to control our minds are met by an inordinate measure of failure. Whether we want to stop a worry, concentrate on a task, go to sleep, escape a bad mood, distract ourselves from pain, Read more…
Many thanks to our friend Emonome for noticing that my blog is a finalist for the 2007 Weblog award in the “Best Individual Blogger” category. I am truly humbled by this recognition, and many thanks to those of you who nominated me for this honor. All I set out to do Read more…
Articles that suggest new ways to control weight are always interesting to me, and hopefully also to the readers of my blog. But this one is a doozy. Clinton Rubin found that placing mice on a vibrating platform for 15 minutes per day, 5 days per week, for 15 weeks produced Read more…
Call me old-fashioned, but the recent results of a Zogby/463 poll still took me by surprise. Nearly one quarter of Americans report that the Internet can serve as a substitute for a significant other. Say what? I thoroughly enjoy my time on the Internet, and it’s hard to imagine what Read more…
Every once in awhile, a study comes along that makes me rethink a lot of things I simply took for granted. That makes science so much fun! I have to confess that I have been very convinced by an extensive literature that experience, as opposed to brain differences, has little Read more…