Merv Mandelbaum 
You begin to cross the road as two cars approach: a beater, and a luxury sedan. Which is likely to stop? According to new research, the beater will stop nearly ever time. The luxury sedan? Not so much. A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of … Read More
Step one: figure out how to calm down. Seriously—it could save your life. A recent study by the European Heart Journal found that people who believe that they are stressed have twice the risk of dying from a heart attack or other coronary event. The study examined nearly 8,000 adults, … Read More
Turns out, all you need is a sip of tasty beer (try these craft brews, or this offering from Goose Island) and your brain is bombarded with chemical pleasure. That’s the gist of a new paper in published in Neuropsychopharmacology (that’s the study of how drugs affect the mind and … Read More
There’s nothing quite so dangerous on the 21st century street as a person walking and texting (obligatory video of a jerk doing so here). A new study from the University of Washington monitored a thousand people at “20 high risk intersections” and recorded what they observed. 29.8% of all pedestrians … Read More
Wear a dark coloured jersey and get ready to reap more penalty minutes, according to a new study. Published in Social Psychological & Personality Science, researchers found that hockey teams wearing dark jerseys were more likely to be penalized. Researchers analysed 50,000 NHL games over a quarter of a century. … Read More
