May 2012
13 posts
Is Your Alarm Clock Making You Fat? →
No Primary Author, sciencemag.org
As if you needed another reason to despise your alarm clock. A new study suggests that, by disrupting your body’s normal rhythms, your buzzing, blaring friend could be making you overweight. The study concerns a phenomenon called…
Foreign languages and thinking: Oprima dos for... →
R.L.G. | NEW YORK, economist.com
MANY people report feeling like different people when they speak a foreign language. I’ve been sceptical of these claims, since many of them seem to line up too neatly with national stereotypes: “I feel warmer and more relaxed in…
