Brain & Behavior
The 2025 World Happiness Report found people underestimate community kindness
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
August 2026
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Brain & Behavior
Thought of the day from French philosopher Simone Weil: "Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity"
Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
The idea that performing strong boundaries will instantly attract high-value women falls apart under the research
Aug 11, 2026
Space
The Voyager 1 probe, launched in 1977, is now so far from Earth that a radio signal travelling at the speed of light takes over 22 hours to…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Real science backs the idea that your energy is your most important resource, but not the popular version
Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
There is no single thing women find attractive, but averaged across dozens of cultures the research keeps landing on the same unglamorous…
Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2024 meta-analysis found a small achievement advantage for handwritten lecture notes, but the headline-making EEG study did not test…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
People who reread the same books are not refusing novelty
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 11, 2026
Brain & Behavior
A 2025 study in Scientific Reports found that pet owners who leaned on animals as a substitute for human company were not less lonely for it
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Health
A 2016 study found men aged 20 to 34 had weaker grips than the same-age norms recorded in 1985, but it did not test their fathers and one…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Earth & Environment
About 90 million years ago, a temperate rainforest grew just 900 kilometres from the South Pole
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Technology
When the Apollo 11 guidance software developed under Margaret Hamilton's leadership began flashing a sequence of 1201 and 1202 alarms more…
Aug 10, 2026
Technology
Data centers used 1.5 percent of global electricity in 2024, but AI is driving demand into concentrated clusters where the IEA says one in…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026
Brain & Behavior
Two independent speed-dating studies, one with 763 participants and one with 175, found that measured intelligence did not predict how…
By Lachlan Brown · Aug 10, 2026