culinary magic is the way to anyone's heart....

Here are are a few stories that I have found interesting and I hope you will, too!

why a whiff of cats or rats is scary

“Mice — even those that have never before encountered other species — will act fearfully when exposed to the odor of many different kinds of predators, including cats, rats, snakes, ferrets, weasels, and foxes”

aiming to cure deafness

“f they can further perfect the recipe to generate hair cells in the millions, it could lead to significant scientific and clinical advances along the path to curing deafness in the future, they said.”

Changing thoughts key to battling severe depression

“The study found that a concentration on changing behavior — such as having patients schedule activities to get them out of the house, and tracking how they spent their time — did not significantly predict subsequent change in depressive symptoms.”

the effects of virtual humans on gender

“Much evidence has accumulated showing that nonverbal behavior can have a profound impact on human judgment in ways we are hardly aware of and this research extends that work to the digital realm. This work demonstrates that presentational factors influence people’s decisions, including decisions of moral and ethical consequence, presumably without their realizing it,”

Monkeys and the art of war!

“The new finding that previous conflicts shape future decisions suggests that fights may not be directly linked to immediate competition for resources. In the long term, however, the motivations behind the strategy are linked to the fight for status and the access to resources that status brings, says Flack.”