At NPSC we know that one of the best ways to keep your brain healthy is to learn new things. Unfortunately, with all of the information available to us, it can feel almost impossible to find the time to sift through the web to find the gems.
So, we’ve decided to do it for you! Every Friday, you can find five new articles or videos from the week that will stretch your mind, fuel your spirit, and feed your brain.
“You Share Everything With Your Bestie. Even Brain Waves.” by Natalie Angier, nytimes.com
“Scientists have found that the brains of close friends respond in remarkably similar ways as they view a series of short videos: the same ebbs and swells of attention and distraction, the same peaking of reward processing here, boredom alerts there.”
“Why Do Bridesmaids Traditionally Wear the Same Dress?” by Kate Horowitz, mentalfloss.com
“…many of these so-called traditions are in fact relatively recent inventions, created or perpetuated by the wedding industry. But other seemingly strange wedding behaviors, like matching bridesmaids’ dresses, go much farther back.”
“What Makes the Advice Column Uniquely American” by Jackie Mansky, smithsonianmag.com
“In Asking for a Friend, Weisberg makes the case that Americans in particular have a penchant for the advice industry.”
“Antarctic Veggies: Practice for Growing Plants on Other Planets” by Menaka Wilhelm, npr.org
“And while growing greens in Antarctica is exciting — for much of the year there’s no fresh produce at Neumayer Station III — Bamsey says the end goal of this project is much farther away. EDEN ISS is a practice round for cultivating food in space.”
“Why Do We Have Eyebrows? They May Be the Reason Our Species Survived” by Philip Perry, bigthink.com
“…our primate ancestors had hair all over their face. Why did it recede everywhere but at these two curvy places just above our eyes?”
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