science
Think depression is all in your head? It is . . . in the sense that the brain of someone who is depressed is genuinely neurochemically different than the brain of someone who is not. A new study conducted in the UK, published in PLOS One, has discovered that depressed … Read More
As you may have guessed by some (or a lot of) our content, we really, really like meat. Sadly, an awful lot of our current meat production isn’t very green: industrial meat farming can use up a lot of water and other resources, making it inefficient. Happily, a new study … Read More
Despite what Ayn Rand devotees think (or assume, because “think” is a bit of a strong word for Objectivism), empathy plays and important role in our society—in the sense that without empathy, we probably wouldn’t have a society at all. However, empathy has an egocentric factor too, in that our … Read More
It isn’t the pressure you’re under, the amount of work you have yet to finish, or even your idiot co-worker who’s always quipping “that’s what she said!” that’s making you depressed. Granted those things don’t help, especially your co-worker with dumb jokes (ahem, Joel from accounting!). The thing that’s really … Read More
We write about sleep a lot here at DailyXY (see here, and here, and here, and here, and here), but that’s mainly because sleep has attracted a lot of scientific attention recently. Scientifically speaking, it’s weird that mammals sleep. It makes us vulnerable, we don’t need it to regular our … Read More
