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Sleep Deprivation Leads to Symptoms of Schizophrenia

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Thinking of burning the midnight oil? Maybe don’t—after twenty-four hours, the quality of your thinking won’t be so great. In fact, it’ll be comparable to someone with schizophrenia. This information comes courtesy of a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience. Researchers recruited a total of twenty-four healthy subjects, men … Read More

Nobody is Good at Detecting Flirting

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Is that girl at the bar interested in you? Actually, you probably have no idea. And neither does your wingman. According to a study published in Communication Research, everyone is pretty terrible at knowing if someone else is flirting. In one experiment, fifty-two pairs of single, heterosexual college students had … Read More

Her Cheatin’ Heart

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Think your lady might fall for another guy? Well, it’s certainly possible. Then again, you’re not considering all the possibilities. According to notorious personals website Victoria Milan, more than ninety per cent of women (specifically, the type of women who sign up for Victoria Milan) have flirted or had sex … Read More

Over the Hill at 24

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When do you start thinking a little slower? Forty? Thirty-five? Thirty? Try twenty-four. According to a study published in PLOS One, your brain starts showing it’s age and declining cognitively at an average of twenty-four. How’d we that that result? Easy: Starcraft 2. Here’s the handy thing about Starcraft 2, … Read More

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