While you might sometimes find it annoying that you can’t remember faces, names and details, forgetting is an important part of the brain if we’re not to become cognitively overwhelmed. And, it turns out, the brain takes a very controlled approach to how it goes about it. Read more…
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Your Brain Forgets Stuff Carefully and on Purpose
The number of syphilis cases is on the rise, and some public health officials think it’s because of Grindr . Well, Grindr and Adam4Adam and, presumably, Tinder and Hinge and OkCupid. These apps all make it easier to find people to have sex with, so naturally they cause more people to get STDs, right? Not exactly. Read more…
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Health Officials Blame Hook Up Apps for Syphilis Spike
The new iPhone camera is 8-megapixels. Meanwhile, Canon is reportedly testing a new DSLR with 75-megapixels. But how many megapixels is the human eye? That is, how many megapixels would an image the size of your field of vision need to be to look normal? Read more…
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What Is the Resolution of the Human Eye?
Ugh. You’re up an hour early, your body hates you for it, and even a gallon of coffee can’t get your day on track. Daylight saving sucks. But you know the worst part? It doesn’t have to be like this. Read more…
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Why Daylight Saving Time Is Pointless
It seems like snoring has become more of an epidemic than any of us have realized. At CES, Sleep Number revealed its IQ bed that lets bedmates silence a snoring partner. But now there’s a pillow that can stop a deafening snorer all by itself. Read more…
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Snore Sensing Pillow Automatically Nudges You To Roll Over
This monochrome image of living tissue has some extremely unwelcome visitors lurking within it. Taken from some of the first ever 3D images of HIV at work , those little blue circles show the virus infecting the surrounding cells. Read more…
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This Is What HIV Looks Like When It Infects Living Cells
One of the biggest criticisms Google Glass has incurred since day one is that it’s, well, ugly and/or weird-looking. Believe it or not, Google may have actually just solved the problem. Read more…
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Whoa, Google Glass Just Got Way Better Looking (Plus Prescriptions)
In the latest issue of the New England Journal of Medicine , researchers recount the fascinating case of an electrician who, after sustaining a 14, 000-volt shock to his left shoulder , presented with “bilateral stellate anterior subcapsular opacities of the lens.” Translation: Starburst-shaped cataracts. Read more…
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A 14,000-volt electrical shock gave this man star-shaped cataracts
After the bevy of problems Healthcare.gov encountered in its first few months of life, dumping one more onto the pile shouldn’t phase you all that much, right? Well, not if that hiccup is actually a gaping vulnerability—and one that can grant hackers access to over 70, 0000 private records in just four minutes, at that. Read more…
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Hackers Swiped 70,000 Records from Healthcare.gov in Four Minutes
A side stitch is a common ailment while running, where you feel a sharp stabbing pain under the lower edge of the ribcage. But you might be able to avoid that simply by changing your running gait to always breathe in and out on your left foot, suggests Dr. Tim Noakes in his book The Lore Of Running . Read more…
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Exhale on Your Left Foot to Avoid Side Stitches While Running