brains
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We Love Rock Music Because It Makes Us Feel Like Cavemen
Distorted guitar, jarring chords and screeching solos get a lot of us pumped up. New research reveals that it’s not something we’ve learnt to love — in fact, the distinctive sounds of rock music echo the raw, visceral warning sounds of humans and animals from prehistoric times.
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Exposure To Awesome Things Makes You A Better Person
“Awesome” is a word which is thrown around liberally these days, but a new study [PDF] suggests that things that inspire awe — that is, a feeling of respect mixed with fear or wonder — actually help make you a better person.
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Watch How A Rod Impaled A 19th Century Man’s Skull Without Killing Him
You’ve might have heard the story of Phineas Gage, the 19th century construction foreman who was impaled through the brain with a tampering rod but lived a relatively normal life. Researchers at UCLA have a new twist: Gage’s brain was damaged far more severely than we thought.
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Eat Your Own Brain (And Live To Tell About It)
The Edible Chocolate Brain is perfect for the narcissist in love with their own intellect. The merely have to spend a chunk of time in an MRI tube, and from that data, Inition can create a 3D model of a brain which is then fed to a 3D printer to forge a 3D mould.