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Diego Velázquez (Wikimedia) Personal Identity Is (Mostly) Performance
Wearing, showing, and sharing the many things that make up your personal presence helps you understand yourself.
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Peter Becker/flickr Study: Feeling Small Makes People More Paranoid
Women made shorter in a virtual reality situation compared themselves more negatively to others and reported more paranoid feelings.
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joansorolla/flickr Why Can't We Prevent Alzheimer's?
We got the human genome a decade ago. Where are the drugs?
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I_Believe_/flickr How Color Shapes Our Lives
The social, historical, and evolutionary signals of colors. Plus, a video that shows how Newton arbitrarily named the colors of the rainbow.
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Let the Cold Hand of Science Direct You to Perfect Love
Research on what makes relationships last, in easily memorizable verse
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A Sexual-Decision Flowchart That Makes Everything Simpler for Medieval Men
A visualization of early Christian rules about sex; or, why sex is still a weird thing today.
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Drinking During Pregnancy and Childhood Academics
There is conflicting advice out there about drinking a small amount, particularly of wine, during pregnancy. Some research has said it may even be beneficial. Today the National Bureau of Economic Research says that's wrong.
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Reuters Why Child Stars Melt Down: Bieber's Character Split
The heady psychological implications of early fame
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Alyssa L. Miller/flickr Study: Believing You’ve Slept Well, Even If You Haven't, Improves Performance
The positive effects of "placebo sleep"
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Jacques-Louis David Diagnosing Mental Illness in Ancient Greece and Rome
Gods-given hallucinations and suppressing anger for the greater good: How what's considered "abnormal" has changed.
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Jim Young / Reuters The New Way to Love Food
The "every-other-day diet" involves one day of eating whatever you want, followed by a day of eating very little.
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Dominic Ebenbichler / Reuters Life as a Nonviolent Psychopath
Neuroscientist James Fallon discovered through his work that he has the brain of a psychopath, and subsequently learned a lot about the role of genes in personality and how his brain affects his life.
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NeilsPhotography/flickr How to Spot a Narcissist Online
Studies have shown narcissists post more self-promoting content on social media, but it's not always so easy to tell if someone's doing it for the attention.
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Vassilis Online/flickr Study: For a Calmer Office, Dim the Lights
Bright lights, big emotions.
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How to React When a Man Falls Through Your Ceiling
"Hey Ryan." "Hey Billy." The viral-video health parable of the day.
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macieklew/flickr/Wikimedia Commons How Sex Affects Intelligence, and Vice Versa
New research says sexual activity can grow brain cells. Keeping them may be another matter.
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Will It Fly? Bicycle Desk Edition
NASA's social network discusses the potential of bicycle desk technology, and harnessing the energy of a workout
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thomaswanhoff/flickr Where Life Has Meaning: Poor, Religious Countries
Research indicates that lack of religion is a key reason why people in wealthy countries don't feel a sense of purpose.
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Glen_Wright/flickr A Lesser-Known Dementia That Steals Personality
Frontotemporal dementia, unlike Alzheimer's, often hits people in the prime of their lives, and can make them act like a completely different person.
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visual.dichotomy/flickr Study: Fight Performance Anxiety by Getting Excited
"Calm down" might not be the best advice before public speaking.
