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Volle Blase, voll konzentriert
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger: Die Blase drückt, und man will nur noch eins – auf die Toilette. Plötzlich drehen sich alle Gedanken nur noch darum. Je akuter das Bedürfnis, desto stärker wird die Umgebung ausgeblendet. Nun könnte
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Study of the Day: Attempting to Focus Can Lead to Distorted Images
The Atlantic: PROBLEM: It’s a contradiction that we’ve all experienced. Sometimes, the more we focus on certain objects, the more we misperceive where they are in relation to other objects. METHODOLOGY: Yale University cognitive psychologists
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Public display of disaffection
Macleans: Last June, Kevin Newman delivered the commencement address at the University of Western Ontario. Reading from his iPad, the veteran TV news journalist extolled social media’s increasing role in shaping global events—and how it’s
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Can Our Immune Systems Tell Us Who’s Sick?
Discovery News: The placebo effect relies on the mind’s ability to influence the body, but does the same work in reverse? For instance, after being sick, can the body’s immune system subconsciously tell us who’s
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Memories you cannot swear by
The Sydney Morning Herald: As the 10-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York passed last weekend, many people paused to remember where they were at the moment
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Don’t remember? Or don’t think you remember?
Times of India: One day you notice a group of boys passing by in a park. The next day you learn police are looking for someone to identify him as a suspect in a mugging
