eBay and the Brain: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Economic Downturn
“eBay and the Brain: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Economic Downturn” – Scientific American
“eBay and the Brain: What Psychology Teaches Us about the Economic Downturn” – Scientific American
“DOCTOR FILES: When the Unknown Is Not So Bad” – Los Angeles Times
The novel coronavirus has decimated our economy at the same time as it has directly threatened our health. As if that weren’t bad enough, the economic damage Covid-19 is causing could have an indirect impact on our health. Consider what we already know about economic downturns and opioid overdoses. A research team led by Atheendar…
If you use a smaller plate when you eat, you’ll eat less food. Here’s a rather wonky summary of research on plate size, a “meta-analysis” showing that smaller plates mean you put less food on the plate and, thus, eat less food. Less pie on your plate; less pie in your pie hole!
Because so much of human thinking is dichotomous, even though so much of the real world exists on a continuum, we have strange phenomena like the one illustrated in the picture below. The picture shows the significance values of research findings, and reveals that there are many more articles published where the statistical significance of…
Great picture from a NEJM article showing a continuing reduction in American tobacco consumption, a decline that accelerated during the Obama years. (Irony – Obama was a smoker during much of that time!) My question – What would this look like if you added in all the people using e-cigarettes?
“Is Information Always A Good Thing?” – Medical Care