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…
Had I not pursued a career in psychology, I think my next logical choice was to be an ethologist. I think animal behavior is endlessly fascinating, but I just couldn’t get past biology curriculum requirements to study plants and fungi (my apologies to botanists everywhere). One of my favorite animals Read more…
Okay, now I’m moving from my foodie thread to a mommy thread, but I couldn’t pass up commenting on recent research by Ruth Feldman of Bar Ilan University in Israel [1]. Feldman measured oxytocin levels in pregnant women during their first and third trimesters, and then again in their first Read more…