TIL Brad Pitt believes he has Prosopagnosia or 'face blindness', a condition in which he has trouble recognizing and remembering faces, including his own
Scientists in UCLA examine that 'time and time again' people suffered their first experience with anxiety or depression right after stomach illnesses. They did brain scans after patients ate probiotics, and found that stomach bacteria actually directly affected connectivity of the brain.
In CSU lab, laser-heated nanowires produce micro-scale nuclear fusion with record efficiency. The work is detailed in a paper published in Nature Communications.
TIL Making eye contact with an infant makes adults’ and babies’ brainwaves ‘get in sync’ with each other – which is likely to support communication and learning – according to researchers at the University of Cambridge.
TIL of Julian Jaynes's 'Bicameral Mind Theory' which suggests that ancient humans were not self aware and that the right hemisphere communicated with the left via auditory hallucinations. These voices may have been interpreted as 'gods' by early humans.
TIL There's a micro-generation called 'Xennials' for those born between 1977 and 1985. These people grew up with an analog childhood and a digital adulthood
TIL of bog butter—an ancient waxy substance often found buried in peat bogs that was used as a way of preserving butter in ancient Ireland. The butter would gain flavor notes from its surroundings that were namely described as “gamey,” “moss,” “funky,” “pungent,” and “salami.”