Random links, again...
Free logic-puzzles site. Good for a brief distraction.
Also, I haven't given you guys MedicalXpress links for a while... let's fix that.
Staph infections and eczema: What's the connection?
(*sourly* This is now relevant to my interests.)
Mind over gray matter: Placebo improves both pleasure and pain
How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain
(i.e. the one everyone will want to throw in the faces of family members XD)
THE POPE IS CATHOLIC AND BEARS DEFECATE IN THE WOODS - er, "Manipulative and empathetic people both adept at reading emotions"
(In all seriousness. Yes, if one of your interest areas is, to be euphemistic about it, "win friends and influence people", OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO CULTIVATE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL SIGNALS AND THUS LEARN TO "READ" THEM MORE ACCURATELY. Did this really need to be STUDIED?)
What makes creativity tick?
Study explores the cost of creativity
[opinion: the reason why the creative students had more trouble recalling details/big picture is that their brains were more prone to fabricate plausible-seeming alternatives from shifty data, whereas the non-creative students had more stable recollections.
Not that it was a significant difference in the study - 9% error versus 2% error, seriously? - but similar phenomena are sometimes a %$@^! for me, so I'm guessing that's why.]
Also, I haven't given you guys MedicalXpress links for a while... let's fix that.
Staph infections and eczema: What's the connection?
(*sourly* This is now relevant to my interests.)
Mind over gray matter: Placebo improves both pleasure and pain
How video gaming can be beneficial for the brain
(i.e. the one everyone will want to throw in the faces of family members XD)
THE POPE IS CATHOLIC AND BEARS DEFECATE IN THE WOODS - er, "Manipulative and empathetic people both adept at reading emotions"
(In all seriousness. Yes, if one of your interest areas is, to be euphemistic about it, "win friends and influence people", OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO CULTIVATE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL SIGNALS AND THUS LEARN TO "READ" THEM MORE ACCURATELY. Did this really need to be STUDIED?)
What makes creativity tick?
Study explores the cost of creativity
[opinion: the reason why the creative students had more trouble recalling details/big picture is that their brains were more prone to fabricate plausible-seeming alternatives from shifty data, whereas the non-creative students had more stable recollections.
Not that it was a significant difference in the study - 9% error versus 2% error, seriously? - but similar phenomena are sometimes a %$@^! for me, so I'm guessing that's why.]