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We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: you need sleep. Poor sleep makes you eat more, makes you more anxious, causes brain damage, and a host of other problems. Add this to the list: it’s as bad as binge drinking, at least when it comes to predicting academic … Read More
It was Oscar Wilde who observed that the best way to get rid of temptation is to give into it. With apologies to Mr. Wilde, we’re more into beating it, even if that means living with it every day, and a new study suggests that this may be possible by … Read More
If only there were a cure. Besides the grinding suffering of an age before ordering pizza online. [youtube width=”640″]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd7wAithl7I[/youtube]
Companies can increase sales by up to fifteen per cent with one weird trick: swapping out one model’s face for another in their ads. Consumers hate them! In all seriousness, a study published in Marketing Science tested some new facial selection software with some success—at best fifteen per cent increase … Read More
Okay, brace yourselves: YouTube commenters are objectively worse than commenters on other platforms. Maybe not Tumblr, though. Hyperbole aside, researchers publishing in PLOS One found that TED commenters are more likely to talk about content and ideas than YouTube commenters, who mainly talk about the person presenting in a video. … Read More
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