For those of you looking for a fresh new excuse for playing videogames instead of studying for your Biological Psychology midterm, here’s one I might actually buy into. Daphne Bavelier and Shawn Green of the University of Rochester demonstrated that Read more…
Although we all enjoyed the film The Devil Wears Prada chez Freberg, I cringed when Meryl Streep’s character referred to the very slender Anne Hathaway as “the fat girl,” and “Nigel” stated that “2 is the new 4; 4 is Read more…
In a recent report in Science, Antoine Bechara and his colleagues at USC interviewed 69 people who had smoked at least six cigarettes per day for more than two years before experiencing brain injury [1]. Of the 69 people in Read more…
If you’re like most people, and in the case of Garfield, some cats, certain Mondays make getting out of bed difficult. Apparently, according to British psychologist Cliff Arnall, some Mondays are worse than others. Tomorrow, January 22nd, is supposed to Read more…
All of us know that high levels of “bad” cholesterol, or LDL-C, put a person at risk for stroke and other cardiovascular problems. Now we have news, submitted by an alert student, that suggests that low levels of LDL-C might Read more…