(Edsel Cook) Competition tends to bring out the best in people. Turns out, that saying applies to sperm as well. Spanish and Swedish researchers found that spermatozoa can alter themselves to compete with rival sperms from another male of the same species.
Psychology
A New Way to Know Liars’ Intent
(Neuroscience News) Dartmouth engineering researchers have developed a new approach for detecting a speaker’s intent to mislead. The approach’s framework, which could be developed to extract opinion from “fake news,” among other uses, was recently published as part of a paper in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
The Chemistry of Anxiety
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety is an important mechanism that has ensured the survival of the human species. In the modern world, however, that same chemical response often harms instead of helping humans.
The Rotten Apple Theory — Practical Community Advice
(Exploring Your Mind) We give the name of rotten apples to co-workers who employ negativity, criticism, or constant abuse. With their behavior, they contaminate the entire workplace, causing stress, suffering, and low productivity.
Five Keys to Giving Emotional Support
(Exploring Your Mind) Providing the right kind of emotional support for someone in need can be tricky.
The Symbolism of Dreams According to Jung
(Exploring Your Mind) The symbolism of dreams depends on how they integrate our conscious and unconscious lives.
Mystery of the Moon Eyed People
(Atlantean Gardens) The Moon-Eyed people were said to be a race of small people that, according to Cherokee legend, were blinded by daylight, but able to see in moonlight, who only came out at night, and were described as under three feet tall, light-skinned, with big blue eyes.
Captain America: Have Values Become Old-Fashioned?
(Exploring Your Mind) Some people think that the moral code Captain America lives by is old-fashioned. But is it?
How Our Dreams Prepare Us to Face Our Fears
(Science Daily) Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland, — working in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin (USA) — analysed the dreams of a number of people and identified which areas of the brain were activated when they experienced fear in their dreams. They found that once the individuals woke up, the brain areas responsible for controlling emotions responded to fear-inducing situations much more effectively. These results, which are published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, demonstrate that dreams help us react better to frightening situations, thereby paving the way for new dream-based therapeutic methods for combating anxiety.
Why Gaia is Portrayed as a Feminine Spirit | Michael Tsarion | #25 Excerpt
Why Gaia is Portrayed as a Feminine Spirit | Michael Tsarion | #25 Excerpt
UFO Sightings and the Illuminati? Study Finds Conspiracy Theorists Surprisingly Ordinary
(Sebastian Kettley) UFO sightings, alien encounters and claims of the Illuminati may seem bizarre and outlandish on the internet but the people behind the popular conspiracies are far from “crackpots wearing tinfoil hats”, a researcher has claimed.
Verbal Assault: Another Form of Abuse That Can Be Similar To Physical Abuse
(Collective Evolution) Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Faith, Truth and Forgiveness: How Your Brain Processes Abstract Thoughts
(Neuroscience News) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have leveraged machine learning to interpret human brain scans, allowing the team to uncover the regions of the brain behind how abstract concepts, like justice, ethics and consciousness, form. The results of this study are available online in the October 29 issue of Cerebral Cortex.
Teenagers and Risky Behavior: Why They Do It
(Exploring Your Mind) French anthropologist David Le Breton says that roughly 15% of teenagers engage in risky behavior. One interesting thing about that number is that it’s the same all over the world.
The Average Person Will Watch Over 78,000 Hours Of Television “Programming” Over The Course Of A Lifetime
(Michael Snyder) If you want to waste your life, a great way to do that is to spend tens of thousands of hours watching television. Today, it is so difficult to get people to leave their homes and get active in their communities, because most of us are absolutely glued to one screen or another.