Sense
Sharing the road: Safety gear makes cycling safer, but can promote a false sense of security
(BPT) – As more people are taking to two wheels for commuting and overall fitness, cycling accidents and injuries are on the rise. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reported that in 2015, 818 cyclists were killed in motor vehicle traffic crashes in the U.S., an increase from 729 in 2014. In addition, more […]
Making sense of nutrition labels
(BPT) – You can find them on the side of most every product at your local grocery store. They are plain and kind of boring but nutrition labels were designed to contain vitally important information for good health and wise food choices. These labels tell you the number of servings in a container, how many […]
How does weight stigma smell? Sense of smell may reveal weight bias
Could our reaction to an image of an overweight or obese person affect how we perceive odor? A trio of researchers, including two from UCLA, says yes. The researchers discovered that visual cues associated with overweight or obese people can influence one’s sense of smell, and that the perceiver’s body mass index matters, too. Participants […]
Echolocation acts as substitute sense for blind people
Human echolocation operates as a viable “sense,” working in tandem with other senses to deliver information to people with visual impairment, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. Ironically, the proof for the vision-like qualities of echolocation came from blind echolocators wrongly judging how heavy objects […]
Paul Dolan Believes All Humans Strive For Happiness, Which He Defines As A Combination Of Pleasure And A Sense Of …
Bosses who find their staffreading copies of Paul Dolans Happiness by Design should feel wary. The social media person at Penguin read the book and quit, Dolan tells me. Someone else read the draft and dumped her boyfriend ofeight years. I have come to meet Dolan in his office at the London School of Economics, […]