- Why do stubbed toes hurt so damned much?
- We're wired to sing--"New science shows an evolutionary reason for our love of Mozart and Carly Rae Jepsen: It binds us together." Salon
- Only 2% of People Can Multitask Successfully
- When Do We Lie? When We're Short on Time and Long on Reasons
- Blast from the Past: "Humans have a bit of shark in them"
- Earliest human evidence in Southeast Asia--"Archaeological and genetic evidence to date support the idea that modern humans rapidly migrated out of Africa and were present in extreme Southwest Asia by 90,000 years ago, and in Southeast Asia by 60,000 years ago."
- Earliest Americans Arrived in Waves, DNA Study Finds NYT
- Many human 'prototypes' coexisted in Africa
- 500-Million-Year-Old 'Mistake' Led to Humans--"Drilling of the seabed off Antarctica has revealed that rainforest grew on the frozen continent 52 million years ago, scientists said Thursday, warning it could be ice-free again within decades."
- New fossils hint at ancestral split
- Humans, Neanderthals related to yet another group
- What Neandertal DNA can teach about race, autism, and more
- Neanderthal sex made modern humans fitter
- ENCODE: The human encyclopaedia--"First they sequenced it. Now they have surveyed its hinterlands. But no one knows how much more information the human genome holds, or when to stop looking for it."
- Blogging the Human Genome: Humans have long enjoyed nonhuman lovers—the proof is in our DNA
- Hidden Treasures in 'Junk' DNA--"What was once known as junk DNA turns out to hold hidden treasures, says computational biologist Ewan Birney."
- Why great ideas come when you aren't trying
- Musical Chills Related to Brain Dopamine Release
- Shocking: Why pink is just a figment of your imagination
- Study: You Can Learn New Things in Your Sleep--Omelette du fromage.
- Yale team discovers how stress and depression can shrink the brain
- New Study: NFL Players May Be More Likely to Die of Degenerative Brain Diseases
- Scientists Successfully 'Hack' Brain To Obtain Private Data--"Researchers from the University of California and University of Oxford in Geneva figured out a way to pluck sensitive information from a person's head, such as PIN numbers and bank information."
- Rat Dreams Controlled While They Sleep--"The breakthrough furthers our understanding of how memory gets consolidated during sleep."
- Amazing Memory--"Scientists are taking a closer look at the extremely rare people who remember everything from their pasts. And yes, their brains are different."
- 'Ram' memory saves real memory in older men
- Why Jerks Get Ahead
- Inception helmet creates alternative reality--"Substitutional Reality system could be used to study cognitive dysfunction in psychiatric patients."
- 'Losing Yourself' In A Fictional Character Can Affect Your Real Life
- That giant tarantula is terrifying, but I'll touch it
- Are We All Braggarts Now?--"Boasting Epidemic Goes Viral; Crowing Boosts Self Esteem but It's Annoying" WSJ
- An Open Letter to Researchers of Addiction, Brain Chemistry, and Social Psychology
- Daniel Amen is the most popular psychiatrist in America. To most researchers and scientists, that's a very bad thing.
