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Just in time for St. Patrick’s Day: This is how science describes a hangover
With St. Patrick’s Day coming up on Sunday, now’s a good time to rethink the traditional approach to the Irish high holiday and give a second look at what all that boozing really does to your body. The best tips from a recent post to the Bytesize Science YouTube channel:…
Rappers’ brains shift when freestyling, says study
Freestyle rap, an improvised style of the music genre associated with back-to-front baseball caps, baggy jeans and gold chains, has burst onto the science stage, shedding light on the workings of the brain. Researchers at the National Institute on Deafness and other Communication Disorders in the United States have examined…
Science explains: What actually happens to the brain on marijuana?
It’s a cultural zeitgeist in America that “your brain on drugs” is a brutish, violent experience that produces nothing but euphoria at the moment at the expense of the user’s future. But science is a bit more nuanced than that. The increasingly popular YouTube account AsapSCIENCE has carried some pretty…
A Surefire Way To Make Everyone Believe In Global Warming
Let’s just host every global warming conference on the Equator. I’m not sure that any proponent of the theory of global warming has ever said that weather cycles will stop entirely, but who gives a fuck what science-types say about the weather? Weather isn’t even really science, it’s just looking…
Scientific American on why evo psych is bad biology
Occasionally, desperate sexists, particularly of the Nice Guy® variety, accuse me of being anti-science and practically a creationist because I don’t think that pop evo psych theories are science when it’s all about why the cavemen adhered to gender binaries that presume “The Flintstones” was documentary. I promise, my belief…
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