The rabbit on the moon

The skies have been awfully clear lately, and the full moon particularly refulgent (ha!). I can spend hours just staring at nightscapes, even if the stars are hidden on full moon nights. Anyway, I can’t believe how few people know about the moon rabbit so I’ve decided to blog about it here. According to the [...]

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Wednesday is the deadliest day for suicide

From a 5-year study on suicides in the US, these are the suicide rates for each day: Monday – 14.3% Tuesday – 12.7% Wednesday – 24.6% Thursday – 11.1% Saturday – 14.4% Sunday – 11.8% So much for Monday Blues, seems like Wednesday is when we should really be worrying about. Read the full article [...]

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Living abroad linked to creativity

It may seem intuitive to expect that living abroad enhances creativity, but social scientists need empirical evidence for their claims, which is why even the most intuitive or commonsense axioms are put to the test. In an article that appears in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, researchers examine the link between overseas experience [...]

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Tongue Joysticks?

Avid gamers who fancy more buttons and controls than their ten fingers can manage, might take an interest in tongue joysticks: Okay, so the original purpose of this new technology isn’t to soup up computer geeks’ game performances, but rather to provide disabled people a more precise method of controlling a computer or a wheelchair. [...]

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Resistance to Tamiflu reported in H1N1 pandemic

The first case of the H1N1 strain being resistant to Tamiflu has now been reported in Denmark, but it’s not time to panic yet as the patient responded well to Relanza, another antiviral drug. Still, Tamiflu, the antiviral drug, is the first line of defense against flus and the H1N1s resistance to it is of [...]

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