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ExerciseCan Exercise Make You Feel More Full? By a simple food-in/energy-out model, a run on the treadmill or swim in the pool should make you want to eat more. But recent findings have suggested that exercise can actually help to slow overeating. And a new study presents evidence that the body’s physiologic response to ...
ExerciseCalendar: MIND events in September and October SEPTEMBER 20 We often refer to a strong sexual attraction as animal magnetism, but arousal involves more than just base instinct. At the Mind Science lecture series , psychologist Stephanie Ortigue will describe how desire depends on complex mental processing. Her talk, “The ...
ExerciseSpace Spectacles: NASA Evaluates Adjustable Astronaut Eyewear Middle age is often accompanied by the onset of presbyopia , a condition whereby the eye’s crystalline lens loses some of the youthful elasticity that enabled it to focus on nearby objects. The remedy for most people has been reading glasses or, for those already wearing prescription lenses, ...
ExerciseSweating it out in Kigoma Editor’s Note: Students from Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering are working in Tanzania to help improve sanitation and energy technologies in local villages. The student-led group , known as Humanitarian Engineering Leadership Projects (HELP), will file dispatches from the field during their trip. This is their ...
ExerciseLiving in a Landscape of Fear: How Predators Impact an Ecosystem Editor’s Note: The following is an excerpt from Cristina Eisenberg’s book The Wolf’s Tooth . A doe burst out of the forest and tore across the meadow, two wolves in close pursuit. This drama unfolded not twenty feet from where my young daughters ...
ExerciseGenetically Modified Crop on the Loose and Evolving in U.S. Midwest Outside a grocery store in Langdon, N.D., two ecologists spotted a yellow canola plant growing on the margins of a parking lot this summer. They plucked it, ground it up and, using a chemical stick similar to those in home pregnancy kits, identified proteins that ...
ExerciseMother’s Pregnancy Weight Linked to Child’s Obesity More than 26 percent of American adults were obese as of 2009–compared with less than 20 percent in 2000, according to a new report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And the number of U.S. states with more than 30 percent of their population topping a ...
ExerciseExtreme Function: Why Our Brains Respond So Intensely to Exaggerated Characteristics If someone showed you a caricature of Richard Nixon–a man’s face with oversize shaggy eyebrows, a bulbous nose and pronounced jowls–you would probably recognize the former president immediately, even though the drawing is not true to life. A cartoonist creates such a sketch by taking ...
ExerciseFollow Your Nose: Sniff Controller Gives the Severely Disabled a New Way to Communicate and Move Assistive technology that helps severely paralyzed people navigate the world and communicate with others often taps into whatever abilities the disabled retain, such as blinking or moving the mouth and tongue. Now, for the first time, ...
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