Merv Mandelbaum 
Problem You’re worried about your heath and you’re doing a lot of shift work. Reality That shift work may jeopardise your health and be linked to cancer, according to a study in Current Biology. Method Mice bred to develop tumours at fifty weeks (yeah, science can be freaky) had their … Read More
Problem People always guess that you’re older than you really are. But that isn’t a big deal, right? Reality Your ‘biological age’ doesn’t always correspond to your real age, and not only is that bad news for your health, people can sometimes tell just by looking at you, according to … Read More
To paraphrase Calvin Coolidge, there are plenty of unsuccessful talented people, unrewarded geniuses, and well-educated failures in this world, and nothing will take the place of persistence. Now, there’s some science to back that up. A paper by Angela Lee Duckworth, published in Psychological Science and appropriately titled Self-Discipline Outdoes … Read More
When you’re ordering your new Audi S6, do you tell the dealer $95,000, or $94,495? Go with the second option. According to research published in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, you’re likely to get better value. Researchers at Colombia’s Business School analysed how over a … Read More
Problem You know a guy who’s sort of a big talker—he can bench a lot, dates all kinds of cute girls, and can drink you under the table, bro. What’s his deal? Reality That dude’s just suffering from a diminished sense of masculinity so he’s trying to compensate in dumb … Read More
