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Ever been in a situation where you’re on a date with your Peter Kavinsky or you get stuck in an elevator full of people then suddenly you feel the urge to fart? However, you can’t always have the option to run off and just let it all out. So, the only thing that you can do to […]
A new study shows that female monkeys are hesitant to follow the lead of male monkeys even if they’re obviously doing the right thing. They would rather stick to their female “squad” because they simply don’t trust the opposite sex. Sounds familiar to you? Well, Charles Darwin said we’re just evolved monkeys after all. Researchers […]
There is a ‘Loneliness Epidemic’ right now.
“God speed, you massive black Sarcophagus.”
Break-ups can be messy, draining, and devastating. Most people who have gone through it come out intact by dealing with it in their own ways, but new research shows that some strategies are more effective than others. The study, which was published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, was conducted by gathering a group of […]
What’s in a name? Shakespeare famously asked this in his classic tale of Romeo and Juliet. Well, it turns out that there’s actually a lot. New research suggests that a person’s first name changes how other people judge their personality, age, and competency. Researchers asked 500 college students to rate the 400 most popular names from […]
Humans discovered that the world is spherical 2,000 years ago. It’s been a generally-accepted and easily-provable fact for so long that it’s hard to imagine how anyone can still believe otherwise, but here we are. It’s 2018 and flat-earthers still occasionally make it to the headlines with announcements like “Australia isn’t real“, or by blasting […]
A new study found that people who study music or a foreign language are also training their brains to become more efficient. Entitled “Different neural activities support auditory working memory in musicians and bilinguals,” the research was published by the Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. To conduct the study, researchers looked at the […]