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Are you settling in for a night of ten episodes of Friends? Every night? Well, we have some bad news. According to a study to be presented at the Conference of International Communication Association, people who are more lonely and depressed than average are more likely to binge-watch TV. Researchers … Read More
Who still falls for phishing scams? More people than you’d think. Over a million Canadians have handed over information to scammers—and it’s not just old people at risk. Recently, researchers managed to trick a bunch of undergraduates with a phishing scam. A study presented at the International Conference on System … Read More
Reading this on an iPad at night? You may want to power down. A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences has found that people who use e-readers at night are drowsier in the morning that people who read from paper books. Researchers had twelve … Read More
Want to meet women? Who might even be interested in you? Volunteer at a soup kitchen. Or raise money for the United Way. Or at least shovel your neighbour’s sidewalk. Not only would that make you a good guy, you can actually meet someone. A study published in Social Psychological … Read More
If you’re in our demographic, we have an easy answer for you: seven to nine hours. Too much or too little sleep results in all kinds of bad things, like heart disease, stroke, diabetes, mental illness . . . well, you get the idea. And times when your sleep is … Read More
