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Earworms: Why Songs Get Stuck in Our Heads

  Why Do We... | March 14, 2012 | Jen
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Of musical hooks and catchy worms…Like the bent piece of metal on a line, a musical hook is designed to catch the ear of a listener. Like a parasite, an “earworm” burrows deep into our brain, cycling …

Posted in Why Do We... | Tagged bbc, music, PRI, Psychology, Rhitu Chatterjee, The World

The Myth of the Eight Hour Sleep

  Live Better | March 5, 2012 | Jen
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Presenting the newest “modern humans screw everything up” controversy: We’re not built to sleep “eight straight.”

Posted in Live Better | Tagged anthropology, bbc, history, insomnia, live better

The Greatest Show on Earth: Evolution

  For Fun | March 2, 2012 | Jen

“We find ourselves perched on one tiny twig in the midst of a blossoming tree of life.”

Posted in For Fun | Tagged bbc, Beauty, Bill Nye, david attenborough, evolution, genes, genetics, Nature, richard dawkins, symphony of science, video

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The Daily Human for May 22, 2013 – Pac-Man Unleashed

The Daily Human for May 22, 2013 - Pac-Man Unleashed

The most famous arcade game in history was released by Namco with little attention in its native Japan. At the time, game legends Space Invaders and Asteroids were drawing all of the fuss; another one called Rally-X was the newcomer to beat, lighting up the tradeshows. It took an American audience to elevate the story of a hungry yellow pizza to the throne. Read more >>>

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