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Baby We Were Born To Run! How Cardio Exercise Clears Your Head And Does The Impossible

Filed Under: Exercise, Mind/Brain

Baby We Were Born To Run! How Cardio Exercise Clears Your Head And Does The Impossible
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1) Metaphysical Exercise:
So for 2,500+ years, athletes, folk-scientists, bro-scientists, and real scientists have extolled the virtues of exercise.

Even Dr. Mike showed that 30 minutes a day helped -Everything-.

But a bizarre subculture of cardio-focused exercisers called “Runners”, have always claimed odd mental benefits along with the physical ones.

Things like Zen/Meditation, a type of Buzz, & greater Clarity of Thought afterward.

So science decided to investigate these old wives’ tales, and may have discovered evidence instead of myth…

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Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!

Filed Under: Exercise, Weight/Fat Loss

Video: Mental Floss’s John Green Busts Out 25 Reps Of Fitness Facts! + BONUS 10!


 
Pump-Up Your Chances Of Success With Fitness Knowledge!:
Prepping-up to get back in-shape after some yearly-reflection? Well you’re in luck.

Earlier, John Green put out a video on the why of High US Healthcare-Costs that is absolutely Must-See.

Now he’s back over at Mental Floss with another great list-show.

And checking out this list of facts about exercise just might give you that extra information-push to better reach your goals…

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All You Need Is Love! Snuggle-Hormone Does Something Interesting For Your Brain, Man…

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

All You Need Is Love! Snuggle-Hormone Does Something Interesting For Your Brain, Man…
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Love, Actually Is A Brain Chemical:
A lot of recent research has been focused on brain-building through nootropics/supplements and special meditation.

Both have shown some interesting and unexpected results, especially on improvement in quality of life.

As researchers of all kinds try to improve that life-experience from Gilgamesh, to R.W. Emerson, to Eckhart Tolle, new & old ideas get discovered & re-discovered.

And one of them is an out-of-the-way chemical scientists thought restricted to basic-cable reruns of “Love Actually”…

(come on, admit it, you watch that over the holidays too.)

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Video: DNews Asks Which Creativity Drug Works Best. -Alcohol Or Marijuana?

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll, Vitamins/Supplements

Video: DNews Asks Which Creativity Drug Works Best. -Alcohol Or Marijuana?


 
How To Optimize Free Creative Output:
Since some super-creative people have taken different psychoactives to help them work better, there has been a long debate about which is more effective.

And in this video, DNews looks into two of them. Marijuana and Alcohol.

It would seem at first that many writers tend to favor Alcohol, with guys like Fitzgerald, Hemingway, & Twain being on that list.

But on the other hand, many other artistic folk seem to favor Marijuana. To name a few of them: Carl Sagan, Alexandre Dumas, and Salvador Dali.

So which is the best “supplement” for creativity-boostage?…

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Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!

Filed Under: Better Living Through Chemistry, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Vitamins/Supplements

Now We Know Why Vegetarians Sound So Dumb & Dizzy. It’s Because Creatine Boosts All Different Kinds Of Brain POWAH!
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Not All Substitutes Are Equal:
All cheekiness aside, we just did a post on the sexy people over at Eater’s test of the newest vegetable-only burger, by Impossible Foods.

But one of the ideas we raised at the end was: Maybe it tastes close now, maybe even identical in the future,

-But does it give you the same-or-better Nutrition when you take everything into consideration?

Well, one of Red Meat’s components is a salt called Creatine. And sciency-researchers are finding out some very interesting brain-stuff about its new best friend…

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The World’s Favorite Superfood Looks Like It Might Have Yet Another Benefit. -Brainpower!

Filed Under: Aging, Mind/Brain, Nutrition, Sex, Drugs, Rock n Roll

The World’s Favorite Superfood Looks Like It Might Have Yet Another Benefit. -Brainpower!
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Let Food Be Your Medicine…:
More good news, my little easter bunnies! Yet another excuse to eat the world’s most popular sweet; as if you needed one.

So, our nutritional-research Hero Dr. Georgie Crichton & her intrepid team went back and examined a study called the MSLS on what people ate and drank over time.

And they found an interesting correlation between food and smarts.

One that worked -even after- factoring out many confounding variables…

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Video: The Science Of Us Discusses How Anxiety Might Actually Improve Your Brain

Filed Under: Mind/Brain, Video

Video: The Science Of Us Discusses How Anxiety Might Actually Improve Your Brain


 
In this video, the Science of Us talks about the interesting side of a difficult psychological ailment: Anxiety.

For some of us we’ve either known, -or been someone who is way too reactive or neurotic to potential-threats; or even imagined-ones.

Well in nature’s endearingly-odd way, it turns out there is very likely an upside to this analysis-paralysis.

And it starts with Greater Connections…

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“OH REEAAALLY!?!?!?!” -The Brain-Boosting Benefits of Banter & Sarcasm

Filed Under: Mind/Brain

“OH REEAAALLY!?!?!?!” -The Brain-Boosting Benefits of Banter & Sarcasm
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In an experiment by Francesca Gino & her colleagues, they discovered something interesting about a conversation 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:

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Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”

Filed Under: Aging, Bio-Tech, Disease, Mind/Brain, Video

Video: ASAPScience Asks, “What Will We Be Like In 1000 Years?”


 
In this video, ASAPScience speculates about what we’ll be like in another 1,000 years.

And their roundup of the predictions seems nothing if not interesting.

Intro) 3 Examples:
Over the past 10,000, 150, and 65 years, we’ve become tolerant of milk, grown 10cm taller & lived 20 years longer. All due to science in farming, healthcare & diet.

 
So: What else could happen going forward? You know, besides Google Glass…

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GATTACA + Minority Report: Science Can Now Read Your Intelligence, And One Day Your Character, From An MRI Scan

Filed Under: Bio-Tech, Featured, Gadgets, Mind/Brain

GATTACA + Minority Report: Science Can Now Read Your Intelligence, And One Day Your Character, From An MRI Scan


 
Up until now, scientists couldn’t do that much with an fMRI besides sniff out liars. -Well all that just changed, in a big way.

A team lead by Yale researchers has not only found a new use for it, but delved right into the scary and unfair depths of The Biological “Self”.

Their scanner + human connectome big-data invention is nothing short of a digital Sorting Hat, like in the Harry Potter movies.

-Oh yeah, (much like the 2012 work by WUMinn) it can also figure out +/- exactly how smart you are…

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