Slacktivism Hurts Giving, Charities, and Aid

Potential donors don’t give money when presented with the chance to provide support in the form of social media. A new study conducted at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, published in the Journal of Consumer Research, found that the more likely a person was to engage in a free act … Read More

Coffee Drinking Reduces Your Risk of Liver Cancer

Need to feel better about drinking coffee? Here you go: it’ll reduce your risk of liver cancer. A meta-study published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found that drinking coffee reduced incidences of hepatocellular carcinoma—the cause of ninety per cent of cases of liver cancer worldwide—by forty per cent. … Read More

Playing an Instrument Improves the Mind

Want to spot mistakes and fix them quickly? Perhaps take up an instrument. According to a study published in Neuropsychologia, playing an instrument has a number of positive influences on the mind, including the slowing of age-related mental problems like dementia, resilience against major mental health problems like depression, and, … Read More

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