Can you recognize the house?
| March 5, 2012
Month: March 2012
Do blind people see in their dreams? – Video
| March 5, 2012
Incompetent People Too Ignorant to Know It
| March 5, 2012
To put it bluntly, dumb people are too dumb to know it. Similarly, unfunny people don’t have a good enough sense of humor to tell.
This disconnect may be responsible for many of society’s problems.
With more than a decade’s worth of research, David Dunning, a psychologist at Cornell University, has demonstrated that humans find it “intrinsically difficult to get a sense of what we don’t know.” Whether an individual lacks competence in logical reasoning, emotional intelligence, humor or even chess abilities, the person still tends to rate his or her skills in that area as being above average.
Beatboxing 101 – Boots n’ Cats Method
| March 4, 2012
Preference for Fatty Foods May Have Genetic Roots
| March 4, 2012
The results help explain why some people struggle when placed on a low-fat diet and may one day assist people in selecting diets that are easier for them to follow. The results also may help food developers create new low-fat foods that taste better.
“Fat is universally palatable to humans,” said Kathleen Keller, assistant professor of nutritional sciences, Penn State. “Yet we have demonstrated for the first time that people who have particular forms of the CD36 gene tend to like higher fat foods more and may be at greater risk for obesity compared to those who do not have this form of the gene. In animals, CD36 is a necessary gene for the ability to both detect and develop preferences for fat. Our study is one of the first to show this relationship in humans.”
Kinect-ing With The Stars – Video
| March 4, 2012
