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.
10 Food Myths that Won’t Die
In 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.
Doctors are incredibly knowledgable about…bread clips?
In 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.
Parents may now get turned off by what they turn on
Everyone knows children absorb information like a sponge, but now parents have to be careful about having their children absorb information FROM a sponge…SpongeBob that is! Read more
A neat science riddle – can you solve it?
From 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 to find out the answer.
Science helps us eat ever more delicious foods
Purdue scientists have developed a new app that translates any foreign menu into English. The science behind it is called “lightweight algorithms” but the important part is that we can now eat ever weirder foods on our overseas adventures and brag about it to our hometown buddies.
Neurons respond preferentially to animal pictures
This study was published a super high impact journal – Nature Neuroscience, which hopefully legitimizes all of the hours we at the DiSH Lab spend ogling cute animal pictures.
A picture of DiSH Lab member David Lowry’s dog Yoda
We here at the DiSH Lab LOVE ANIMALS. If it were up to us, the DiSH Lab would double as an animal shelter. Since zoning laws make that illegal, we will have to get our kicks from this picture of Yoda:
