Playing video games may improve your eyesight and some aspects of thinking, even enlarging parts of the brain: Link: http://youtu.be/OOsqkQytHOs This reminds me of something I read many years ago. Men typically do better than women in tests of spacial … Continue reading
A public service announcement (PSA) from New Zealand: It reminds me of one from England that’s perhaps the best PSA I’ve ever seen: by … Continue reading
YouTuber Robert Jones assembles scads of short clips and sets them to music to create some quite entertaining little videos. Here are a couple worth seeing: First, excerpts from some of the most popular things on YouTube: Link: http://youtu.be/4sGTQ0jRnMo Next, … Continue reading
The frequently excellent web comic XKCD takes issue with those who complain about excessive use of cameras: Fair enough, but this doesn’t apply to complaints about interfering with others, as when people in front of you hold their cell phones … Continue reading
Bad news for pessimists: A remarkable number of things are actually getting better. Link: http://youtu.be/4SfcGmEVuBY Of course, not everything is improving. Global warming remains a serious and neglected problem, for one huge example, and there’s reason to think Congress is … Continue reading
From the Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a nice short video I wish I’d seen soon enough to post for Christmas: Link: http://youtu.be/u6AuTch808I Grapes… by … Continue reading
In the silent movie era there were musical instruments specially created for accompanying films and creating sound effects as well as music. One was the American Fotoplayer, seen below as played by Joe Rinaudo, who owns one of only about … Continue reading
As Dr. Aaron E. Carroll explains, Poinsettias aren’t actually poisonous None of those miracle hangover cures really works Suicides do not increase around the holidays Most body heat is not lost through the head Eating at night doesn’t make you … Continue reading
Apparently John Oliver agreed was told that no big fuss would be made of his last night on The Daily Show. I’m not sure he believed it — surely he must have suspected some kind parting words — but he … Continue reading
A psychological experiment from the 1970s studied how attached young children are to their mothers (a lot), and more recently British researchers repeated it with pet dogs and cats. Once again, the results weren’t surprising. The report does oversimplify one … Continue reading