27/08/2014
Infographic Shows The Differences Between The Diseases We Donate To, And The Diseases That Kill...
Julia Belluz created the infographic below to compare how much money is donated to fight various disease and how many people in the USA die from those same diseases for an article in Vox.
26/08/2014
Serotonin: Pleasure or Pain? | IFLScience
Psychedelic philosopher Alan Watts may have been right when he wrote that we “cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.” Prescriptions for SSRIs and MAOIs increased more than 400% over a 20 year interval, all with the aim of boosting serotonin levels to promote happ…
20/04/2014
There was so much science this week, I had to split TWIS into two parts. Stay tuned for part 2!
Beards: http://bit.ly/1haZaFD
Sexual organs: http://bit.ly/1eOQEC5
New moon: http://bit.ly/1inhVu9
Time lapse of the eclipse: http://bit.ly/1mfdMJu
Stem cells: http://bit.ly/Qp5wvH
Esophagus: http://bit.ly/1nfSKNG
Graphene: http://bit.ly/1j4ABNb
Blood: http://bit.ly/1noPih1
You can see part 2 here: http://on.fb.me/1lrjgUA