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In an experiment by Francesca Gino & her sassy conversation colleagues from Paris & New York,
They discovered something interesting about a tactic many of us have used to greater or lesser benefit depending on the situation.
It turns out that Banter, Verbal Irony, Repartee, and good-natured Badinage (what they’re calling “Sarcasm” here) is actually good for your brain, and those of all who take part in it.
But first the bad news…
Text Is Terrible. Voice Only Slightly Worse:
For a little while now, people have been hacking their own brains with something called tDCS, or electrodes on the scalp, trying to enhance their mood and mental functioning.
-But the potentially-dangerous bro-science practice has had spotty results, until now.
Because a company called Thync has pooled a team of experts to change all that.
When their engineers & doctors looked at all the different effects and the conflicting studies surrounding the noggin-zaps, from improvements on…
Mom Wasn’t Just Nagging, She Was Right:
Your mom ever pack an apple in your lunch, or tell you to eat your vegetables?
Well, it turns out mom just wanted you to be awesome, and those theories Bradley the teddy-bear whispered late at night about her being part of the international spinach cartel were purely-circumstantial.
In a University of Otago study, Tamlin Conner and her team studied the diets of a small group of young adults along with…
Business Expert Takes A Swipe At The 100 Hour Workweek:
In his piece over at the HBR, business productivity expert and writer Tony Schwartz makes the argument that Sleep is more important than food.
I guess he has a point, sleep cannot be stored in bodyfat for times of famine.
He cites several informal surveys of his own with clients admitting they get 7 hours or less of sleep per night. -Which he then contrasts with more formal research stating that at least in one study, only 2.5% of the participants needed 7 hour or less.
Where there was no…
In a Study of about ~500 12-year-olds, it turns out playing video games is linked to Increases in Creativity.
Not sure what exactly it is,
But there always seemed to be something about High-School that changed the way peoples’ brains worked,
Right up until they were about 26.
-Probably just excessive preoccupation with the opposite sex.
So in a way this research doesn’t surprise…
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