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Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
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Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Can Breathing Like Wim Hof Make Us Superhuman?
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
(Credit: Innerfire BV) Take a deep breath. Feel the wave of nitrogen, oxygen and carbon dioxide press against the bounds of your ribcage and swell your lungs. Exhale. Repeat. Before consciously inhaling, you probably weren’t thinking about breathing at all. The respiratory system is somewhat unique to our bodies in that we are both its passenger and driver. We can leave it up to our autonomic nervous system, responsible for unconscious actions like our heartbeat and digestion, or we can ...read more
Memory Repression: A Dubious Theory That's Sticking Around
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
(Credit: Shutterstock) Compared to the other generational tragedies of the late ’80s and early ’90s, the rise of memory repression cases is hardly remembered. But nevertheless, during that time hundreds of abuse cases in the courts hinged on unproven theories of Sigmund Freud, tearing hundreds of families asunder and solidifying memory repression in clinical lore. Harvard University psychologist Richard McNally famously called repressed memories “the worst catastrophe to befa ...read more
The iceberg about to crack off Antarctica will be a million times more voluminous than the Empire State Building
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
According to a new estimate, the impending iceberg could be the size of Delaware and extend more than 60 stories beneath the surface Antarctica’s soon-to-be iceberg is visualized here in a graphic from the European Space Agency. An ever-widening rift in an Antarctic ice shelf has grown from 70 miles long back in December 2016 to 124 miles long now. That means there’s just another three miles to go before the fissure reaches the ocean. When that happens, t ...read more
Cognitive Function and Menstruation, It's a Mythical Link
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
(Credit: agsandrew/Shutterstock) Menstruating women experience no changes in cognition, according to a new study from Swiss and German researchers. It’s a pervasive stereotype: cognitive performance is different when women are on their periods. It’s an idea that has implications for women’s professional lives, extending even to the last presidential election. However, there isn’t reliable scientific research backing this ill-informed belief up, and what little exists is ...read more