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Exercising When You’re 25 Helps Your Brain When You’re 45

April 17, 2014April 17, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

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Want to make it to middle age with the memory, problem solving skills, and general mental acuity you’ve enjoyed in your youth? Go for a run. Regularly. A study published in Neurology has found that people who exercised regularly in their twenties enjoyed better cognitive function in their forties compared … Read More

Being Fat Makes You Stupid

April 14, 2014April 13, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

We can’t really give you any advice on how to be more intelligent—hell, scientists even have a hard time defining what exactly intelligence is—but we can tell you how you might improve your working memory and clarify your thinking: lose some weight. A study published in the Journal of Neuroscience … Read More

People Trust Strangers With Easier-to-Pronounce Names

April 9, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

Are macadamia nuts from the same family as peaches? If you heard that from Adrian Babeshko, you might believe that. From Czeslaw Ratynska? Maybe not. That’s the gist of a new study, anyway. Researchers publishing in PLOS One found that people are more likely to trust names that are easier … Read More

Treadmills Might Improve Employee Productivity

April 7, 2014April 6, 2014 by Merv Mandelbaum

In a study sure to ruin a few people’s day, researchers have found out that using treadmills at workstations might improve productivity. That’s right, walking while you work might improve your rate of work. Presumably because you’d like to stop working sooner. More so that usual, we mean. The study, … Read More