Your Breath Is A Remote Control - 'By changing your breathing patterns, you can also change your mental state. In this way, your breath is like a remote control for your brain and nervous system.
If someone dislikes you and you need to build rapport with them quickly, try asking them for a favor. There is a cognitive bias called the Ben Franklin Effect that causes people to like someone more after they do that person a favor.
Researchers analyzed 730,000 IQ test results from young men entering Norway's compulsory military duty during the years 1970 to 2009 and found that scores declined by an average of seven points per generation, a clear reversal of test results going back approximately 70 years.
Cells talk in a language that looks like viruses: vast population of particles intermediate between message-carrying vesicles and live viruses hint at an evolutionary connection.
TIL the biochemical reactions of thoughts and emotions in your brain occur simultaneously in virtually every system of your body. Causing body-wide release of molecules that impact physiological functioning at cellular and systemic levels. Making the body more immune or susceptible to the flu.
A new study finds that when 25 percent of people in a group adopt a new social norm, it creates a tipping point where the entire group follows suit. This shows the direct causal effect of the size of a committed minority on its capacity to create social change
TIL Fleetwood Mac's 'Rhiannon' (about a Welsh witch) and 'Angel' were based on the Mabinogion. They were the earliest prose stories in Britain (12th - 13th centuries) and were written in Welsh.
Einstein’s ‘Imaginary Elevator’ thought experiment proven right again. New research used Earth as the elevator, and compared the “ticks” of a dozen atomic clocks all over the planet to look for variations. After studying nearly 15 years of data, they found an invariance was just 0.00000022.
We Change A Lot More Than We Think We Do - 'Research shows that people often underestimate how much their personalities can change between the ages of 14 and 77. This is a good reminder of how dynamic your self can be over the course of a lifetime.