The banality of Facebook
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Select Category Select Tag Select Archive ...read more
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
What's Next In Science: My interactive feature in tomorrow's New York Times
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Select Category Select Tag Select Archive ...read more
NCBI ROFL: Churchgoing may be hazardous to your health.
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Select Category Select Tag Select Archive ...read more
Stewart Brand Gets Fact-Checked
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Select Category Select Tag Select Archive ...read more
Tarantula Terror Study Captures the Ebb & Flow of Panic in the Brain
Author Vishay SinghPosted on Categories Discover Magazine
Step 1: Put study subject in MRI machine. Step 2: Show subject video of a huge, hairy tarantula creeping toward their toes. Step 3: Watch panic light up in the brain. For a study out in this week’s Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dean Mobbs and colleagues put their subjects through this fright fest to sort out how the brain responds to different parts of a threat. It’s not all about the presence of a creepy crawler, Mobbs found—it’s whether that creepy cr ...read more