Author: Chapman

In 1962, the American colonel John glenn it was launched into space in a capsule that orbited the Earth three times. There he saw something that changed his life on a spiritual level: tiny glowing spheres that danced around the capsule in an angelic way. “I will try to describe in the middle of what I am here,” he transmitted to Earth. “I am in the middle of a large agglomeration of small particles, they are brilliantly illuminated, as if they were luminescent. I’ve never seen anything like it. They surround me a little, approach the capsule and look like…

In the hilarious science fiction novel of Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, dolphins are smart enough to leave Earth together before its destruction. His farewell message to humanity is “See you later, and thanks for the fish.” Maybe if the dolphins had read The map of wonders, from Caspar hendersonThey would have done their best to prevent the destruction of the Earth, or at least not to abandon it. And of course they would have given thanks for much more besides the fish. Because, perhaps, dolphins, like us, we would have learned to marvel at everything near and…

If you spend ten days sleeping a third less than usual, you will hardly recover the lost sleep. In fact, even if you spent the next week sleeping without a sleep deficit, that would not be enough to correct the changes in cognitive performance and behavior produced by those ten days of incomplete sleep. They are the conclusions that slide from a new study in this regard.

Basically there are four things that make people band together to defend an idea to its ultimate consequences, even if they are clearly being irrational, stupid, or fanatical. 1. A growing investment (or handicap). 2. Imitation (or positioning in the group in relation to others). 3. Lack of criticism (or endogroup bias). Four. Moral display (or reputation). None of these factors is remotely related to truth or objectivity.

According to new research published by the American Psychological Association, as a person’s free time increases, that person’s sense of well-being also increases, but only up to a certain point. Too much free time can also be a negative thing.

According to a new study led by an international team, Consuming yogurt can help lower blood pressure in adults with elevated blood pressure. Researchers analyzed cross-sectional data from 915 adults (mean age 62.1 years) from the Maine-Syracuse Longitudinal Study. Approximately 62% of the sample had high blood pressure defined as 140/90 mmHg.

The psychologist Judith Rich Harris rose to fame in 1998 after the publication of his equally controversial and illuminating book, The myth of education, where he came to affirm that parents have little influence on the upbringing of children. They are like vitamin C. Its presence is necessary, yes, but a higher dose and involvement does not provide benefits (if it does have harmful and toxic effects). His theses were questioned, reinforced, and finally synthesized in a book of works a little more accessible to the general public, the present No two are the same, where posing as a detective,…

The United States is the first world country with the lowest life expectancy. It is argued that this is due, among other factors, to the fact that their health is private. However, in the United States more is spent on public health than in countries such as Spain. So the problem seems to lie in the high costs of the treatments. According to a new study by RAND Corporation, in fact, it suggests that linking the cost of prescription drugs in the United States with the prices paid in other high-income nations could have cut U.S. drug spending by at…

According to a UCLA study, physicians prescribed opioids more often to their white patients complaining of new-onset low back pain than to their black, Asian, and Hispanic patients. The study shows that doctors were more likely to prescribe non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, or NSAIDs, a less powerful alternative, to their patients of color who came to them for back pain treatment. The study also found that white patients with new low back pain were subsequently more likely to develop long-term dependence on opioids. Ironically, uOne possible reason for these prescribing discrepancies is that physicians may have been less confident that patients…