my readings for today

While at Harvard, I used my iPad to show exactly where I was!

Here is your reading list for Father’s Day!

tea and coffee protects against heart disease

“It adds to a growing body of evidence suggesting health benefits from the most popular hot drinks. Those who drank more than six cups of tea a day cut their risk of heart disease by a third, the study of 40,000 people found.”

Music and Speech share a code for communicating Sadness

“Almost everyone thinks “Greensleeves” is a sad song—but why? Apart from the melancholy lyrics, it’s because the melody prominently features a musical construct called the minor third, which musicians have used to express sadness since at least the 17th century”

the truth hurts

“Though the technologies apparently don’t tell truth from fiction, they may have merit as props. The jailhouse study followed up work that had asked arrestees about drug use, that time without a lie detector in the room. Comparing the two studies revealed that more than three times as many drug users lied when no device was present than when one was.”

pot smoking and schizophrenia

‘…”What the data clearly show are that, if anything, the core symptoms of schizophrenia actually get worse after using cannabis,”…’