Here is what I am reading today: diet, exercise and dementia “Cognitive improvements in the intervention group were made on all measures surveyed, including memory, planning abilities, and speed of mental processing. Miia Kivipelto, the lead investigator, and a prominent expert on lifestyle factors related to dementia, said at a press Read more…
Here is what I am reading today: why we feel ’embarrassed” “Recording people belting out an old Motown tune and then asking them to listen to their own singing without the accompanying music seems like an unusually cruel form of punishment. But for a team of scientists at the University Read more…
artificial life forms evolve intelligence “FOR generations, the Avidians have been cloning themselves quietly in a box. They’re not perfect, but most of their mutations go unnoticed. Then something remarkable happens. One steps forward, and that changes everything. Tens of thousands of generations down the line, some of its descendents Read more…
Here are some of the things that I found interesting: teen exercise and dementia ‘Physical activity can be fun and engaging, and we have to convince people of that in order to prevent some of these diseases of old age.’— Researcher Laura Middleton link between IQ and infectious disease “INFECTIOUS Read more…