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Steve Higgins is sometimes a Psychologist, sometimes a Neuroscientist, and sometimes even a Human Factors Engineer. He works for the U.S. Government. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in Psychology.
Category: Humor
It seems that if you eat on a full brain you are more likely to make poor eating decisions. So here's the schtick via Weighty Matters: Simple experimental design. Take 165 undergraduate students and enroll them in a study you tell them is about memory and where as part of...
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Category: Humor
Trying to lose weight? Need extra motivation? Don't want to spend 1000's on a diet program and personal trainer? Afraid of drugs or cutting big chunks out of your intestine? This might just be the most important diet craze to sweep the nation and solve our obesity problem. Read on...
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Category: Health
The Super Bowl is all about chips and dip - so be careful. It could kill you if you're not! If you're a Seinfeld watcher you probably remember this scene: TIMMY: What are you doing? GEORGE: What? TIMMY: Did...did you just double-dip that chip? GEORGE: Excuse me? TIMMY: You double-dipped...
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Category: Video
Don't play any of the embedded videos if you've ever had a seizure. Now that we're done with the warning... We've all heard of the Pokemon incident in Japan where nearly 700 school aged children were admitted to the hospital with "convulsions, vomiting, irritated eyes and other symptoms" common to...
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Category: Video
"A thrilling documentary covering the origins and troubles surrounding the severe disease, Brain Freeze [a.k.a. Iceberger's Syndrome]." Link....
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Category: Drugs
Fortune has announced the year's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, including Prozac for dogs. "Thank God. We've been so worried since Lucky dyed his hair jet black and started listening to the Smiths." "Eli Lilly wins FDA approval to put Prozac into chewable, beef-flavored pills to treat separation anxiety...
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Category: Food
A video featuring the cartoon fetus eating Christopher Reeve as well as a serious video from CBS News. Learn as well as be offended all in the same post!
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Category: Research
Clearly many problems with this study were missed in the peer review process.
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Category: Video
Anti-drug ad parody that's also an anti-drug ad itself. This is Your Brain on Heroin: Any Questions?....
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Category: Humor
An effective new treatment for anxiety and depression: large sums of cash.
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