National Stress Out Week
We are a little late to the game, but this past week was National Stress Out week. If you’d like some ideas on de-stressing your life, head on over to the ADAA website to get some tips.
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10 Food Myths that Won’t Die
/in Fun, Research Findings/by Dr. TIn an interesting Lifehacker article, they debunk myths like “Lobsters scream when they are boiled” and “Pregnant women should never eat sushi.” Click here for the full fun list.
Congrats Cassie Fletcher for your winning paper!
/in Lab Stuff, Research Findings/by Dr. TAccording to two independent judges whose votes were unanimous, DiSH Labber Cassandra Fletcher wrote the best paper in Dr. T’s Health Psychology class this semester! Congrats, Cassie, on a well-deserved honor. The assignment was to examine the way the media portrays scientific studies and sometimes distorts the findings. Read on to see her paper, the […]
Appetite hormones still elevated ONE year after diet ends
/in Research Findings/by Dr. TThis study is getting a ton of press. Researchers in Australia put people on a diet, and came back one year later to see what happened. Their metabolism was still low, their leptin levels were also low, their ghrelin levels were high, and their peptide YY levels were low. Even if you don’t know what […]
Describing why a cupcake is delicious makes us like it less
/in Research Findings/by Dr. TIn this cool series of studies, University of Alberta researchers say, “Explaining why a chocolate cupcake tasted so divine makes us love the cupcake a little less, while explaining why a movie was so horrible makes us hate the movie a little less.” Useful, applicable stuff!
Doctors are incredibly knowledgable about…bread clips?
/in Fun/by Dr. TIn a you gotta see it to believe it kind of post, Geekologie reports on the insanely detailed and well-characterized world of bread clips. Apparently people eat them a lot, so this is an attempt to classify and create a better, less harmful if swallowed bread clip.
A neat science riddle – can you solve it?
/in Fun/by Dr. TFrom the Endeavour by way of Marginal Revolution, who says: During WWII, statistician Abraham Wald was asked to help the British decide where to add armor to their bombers. After analyzing the records, he recommended adding more armor to the places where there was no damage! The RAF was initially confused. Can you explain? Click here […]
Rice lives on in your blood to affect your genes?
/in Research Findings/by Dr. TAfter guacamole, rice is the DiSH Lab’s favorite food. So, this study about rice micro RNAs (which are capable of altering gene expression, though we haven’t seen this in humans) floating around in people’s blood stream is crazy/cool/scary.
Stress is a magic wand.
/in Research Findings/by Dr. TDespite the obvious “correlation is not causation!” criticism of the title, this piece talks about an interesting study where children of alcoholics are more likely to drink more – but ONLY if they encounter stressful situations. This is yet another example of what I call the “magic wand” property of stress. There are so many cases […]
Null result publications decline
/in Research Findings/by Dr. TAs a person who has known first-hand the pain and difficulty of publishing null results, it’s understandable that publications would trend in this way…but when scientists only publish their positive (not positive meaning good but positive meaning they found an effect), it really puts the integrity of science at risk, and it also threatens scientific […]
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