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Carol Furchner

Autistic Savants: Geniuses of Obscure Devotions - 0 views

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    Discusses history and recent research with autistic savants.
Carol Furchner

Is Sugar Toxic? - 0 views

  • Its results were perceived by the medical community and the wider public as compelling evidence that saturated-fat consumption is the best dietary predictor of heart disease. But sugar consumption in the seven countries studied was almost equally predictive. So it was possible that Yudkin was right, and Keys was wrong, or that they could both be right. The evidence has always been able to go either way.
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      A pitfall of relying on correlations as evidence.
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    Interesting report that illustrates how using correlational evidence can lead to widely differing hypotheses: that sugar, outside of being empty calories and causing tooth decay, is harmless, or that sugar is toxic and contributes to artherosclerosis, heart disease, and diabetes. See especially page 5
Carol Furchner

Sad Dads more likely to spank 1 year old children - NPR - 0 views

  • All told, 15 percent of the fathers in the study said they'd spanked their kids in the past month. But dig a little deeper and the link with depression looks pretty stark. Thirteen percent of dads who weren't depressed reported spanking their kids. Among the depressed dads, however, 41 percent had given a spanking.
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      How did the researchers diagnose depression in the dads? I'm surprised that as many as 41% of the depressed dads would admit to spanking a 1 year old child. Could these numbers be underestimates?
Carol Furchner

DNA Is Not Destiny | Epigenetics - 1 views

  • Typically, when agouti mice breed, most of the offspring are identical to the parents: just as yellow, fat as pincushions, and susceptible to life-shortening disease.
  • Starting just before conception, Jirtle and Waterland fed a test group of mother mice a diet rich in methyl donors, small chemical clusters that can attach to a gene and turn it off.
  • The mothers passed along the agouti gene to their children intact, but thanks to their methyl-rich pregnancy diet, they had added to the gene a chemical switch that dimmed the gene's deleterious effects.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • The even greater surprise is the recent discovery that epigenetic signals from the environment can be passed on from one generation to the next, sometimes for several generations, without changing a single gene sequence.
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    Overview of Epigenetics
Carol Furchner

Slow Motion Destruction Video - 1 views

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    Great illustration of how little of reality we normally see.
Carol Furchner

Emotions: Lie to Me Gallery - Lie to Me Pictures - Lie to Me Photos - 1 views

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    Shows facial expressions representing different emotions, from Fox show Lie to Me
Carol Furchner

Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com - 3 views

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    What changes in your brain when you multitask, surf, use phone apps...
Carol Furchner

'Vital Exhaustion'? Just Don't Call It 'Nervous Breakdown' - 0 views

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    The term "nervous breakdown" has been out of favor for quite a few years, but it's a real event, whatever it's called.
Carol Furchner

The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com - 1 views

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    What you can accomplish by keeping track of many aspects of your life - data helps here, too
Carol Furchner

Black or White: Kids on Race - Special Coverage on CNN.com - 0 views

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    CNN study on children's reactions to and perceptions of race
Carol Furchner

The Monkey Business Illusion - 0 views

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    Count the passes - with a new twist DON'T view this first
Carol Furchner

Best Illusion of the Year Contest - 2010 - 0 views

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    Spectacular and fascinating visual illusions - winners for 2010
Carol Furchner

ADHD linked to exposure to pesticides - 0 views

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    Research report: increased levels of organophosphate pesticide metabolites in urine in children related to increased risk of ADHD symptoms. Correlational study adding to evidence of link.
Carol Furchner

Trouble sleeping? Maybe it's your iPad - CNN.com - 0 views

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    Does the bright light from reading an iPad in bed, or working on your computer late into the evening disrupt your sleep? Some researchers suspect that it might. Prescriptions include: Don't use electronics an hour or two before bed Use orange sunglasses with electronics at night, to block the short wavelengths (which disrupt sleep) Use a utility like f.lux, which turns down the short wavelengths on your screen at night and turns them back up during daylight. Needs more research.
Carol Furchner

Holiday Medical Myths: Sugar and hyperactivity, suicide increases at holidays - 0 views

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    These and four other myths are debunked - the evidence just doesn't support them.
Carol Furchner

Children Need Touching and Attention, Harvard Researchers Say - 0 views

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    Contrasts American child rearing practices to others with attentive, responsive parents who don't let their children "cry it out."
Carol Furchner

Functional Families, Dysfunctional Brains - 0 views

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    Differences found in brains of murderers who come from abusive homes vs "good" homes. "Animal research also has shown that the right orbital frontal cortex is involved in fear conditioning -- that is, in making a subconscious association between antisocial behavior and punishment. In humans, fear conditioning is thought to be the key to developing a conscience. "Why doesn't everyone assault others or act violently?" Raine asks. "One reason is that most of us are good at fear conditioning and we've been punished in childhood for doing minor things like stealing or hitting friends. So we've learned the association between antisocial behavior and punishment and therefore feel fear when we even contemplate an antisocial act. "
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