Yellow sac spider
A spider that likes the smell of gasoline so much it chooses to build its webs in car emission systems was behind the recall of thousands of Mazda cars in the United States.
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‘Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge’ Candy Turns Out it Really is Toxic
Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars
US authorities issued a recall Friday for a brand of Pakistan-made candy called Toxic Waste Nuclear Sludge Chew Bars because it turns out the sweets actually are toxic.
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Tips on How to Germ-Proof Your Kitchen From Scary Foodborne Illnesses
Most people can’t help but feel that food grown and raised on a small farm is a lower risk.
Eggs, lettuce, peanuts, spinach. It seems as if every time we turn around there is another outbreak of a scary foodborne illness. This summer’s huge egg recall was the latest reminder that we do battle against dangerous pathogens like E. coli and salmonella in our kitchens every day.
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Unlocking the Savant Brain In All Of Us
Snyder uses magnetic stimulation to unlock savant skills in average individuals.
What if you had perfect pitch, a photographic memory, and astounding artistic ability? Allan Snyder thinks you already do. Snyder is the director of the Centre for the Mind at the University of Sydney and for years he’s been studying how the mind processes information. Certain individuals, often called savants, demonstrate amazing abilities: near total recall of memories, the ability to count a large number of items simply by glancing at them (numerosity), incredible musical talent, etc. Savants display these cognitive feats while often suffering from a neural disorder like Autism. As described in his publication in The Royal Society, Snyder believes that these abilities arise as Autism (or other phenomenon) grants the individual ‘privileged access’ to data that would normally be overridden in the brain. With magnetic pulses, Snyder has even been able to temporarily ‘unlock’ savant-like abilities in average people! There’s a chance that everyone could one day have access to this kind of hidden potential in their minds.
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Study: Middle-Aged Women Have Better Memories Than Men
Women have better memories than men
At the age of 50, women’s memory outperforms their male counterparts, recalling words both faster and more accurately. The team at the University of London asked men and women to remember 10 words and then recall them two minutes later.
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Students Exposed To Ringing Cell Phones Score Worse On Tests
Ringing cell phone is a distraction in the classroom
Just the ring of a cell phone can pose a dangerous distraction for drivers, especially when it comes in a classroom setting or includes a familiar song as a ringtone, says a new study.
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Bad Moods Help Us Focus, Improve Recall
Bad moods are not always a negative
People grumbling their way through the grimness of winter have better recall than those enjoying a carefree, sunny day, Australian researchers have found.
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How Reliable Are Eyewitness Accounts of a Crime?
How reliable are eyewitness accounts, whose testimony is crucial to the outcome of many criminal trials? They can be easily confused, researchers say.
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Software That Can Help Improve Memory
If memory keeps failing you, worry not. IBM has been working on a software that might help you in recalling forgotten pieces of your life.
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Study: People Remember Four Things At Once
Your brain machinery is clunky, only remembering 3-4 things at a time
Human memory is short. And we would do well to remember that, say researchers at the University of Missouri- Columbia. Their study on the storage capacity of the conscious mind or working memory, as reported by LiveScience.com, caps the limit at a mere three or four.
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