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Song running through your head? Now scientists are converting brain waves to music in the name of national security. Read all about it.

tags: music research brain

Says right here, scientists have found out that women prefer manly men. You know, like lumberjacks. Macho men. Salty sea going dogs like you'll find in the Navy. According to the research, though, I've got that manly strong jutting chin, so I guess I'm you're man, gals, just click on the videos below to see my tower of song.

tags: music research gender

I read the research on procrastination and how to stop it.
I applied the research.
And then I couldn't find my keys.

...psychologists handed out questionnaires to a group of students and asked them to respond by e-mail within three weeks. All the questions had to do with rather mundane tasks like opening a bank account and keeping a diary, but... were given different instructions for answering the questions. Some thought and wrote about what each activity implied about personal traits: what kind of person has a bank account, for example. Others wrote simply about the nuts and bolts of doing each activity: speaking to a bank officer, filling out forms, making an initial deposit, and so forth. The idea was to get some students thinking abstractly and others concretely. Then the psychologists waited. And in some cases, waited and waited. They recorded all the response times to see if there was a difference between the two groups, and indeed there was a significant difference.

tags: research procrastination

Hello Bill Gates. Since you've been gone, the idiots have been running the usability program at Microsoft. Here's an example.
See the picture above? It's the menu to your "recycle bin" desktop icon. You'll notice that I've drawn a highly visible yellow oval around two of the menu items in order to lead your attention to the "Delete" item and the "Empty recycle bin" item.

tags: research incompetence usability menus

So this elephant in Kenya sends a text message to the wildlife preserve ranger and says "I'm going rogue again, I'm off the reservation!" and the ranger texts back "That's funny, you don't look like Sarah Palin..." But seriously...how cool is it, when you can give a bull elephant a cell phone to let the rangers know it's time to shoo him back onto the preserve and away from the farms? And on a related note, there's an endangered monk seal pup that was found at 3 days of age, rescued, raised, and released into the wild with a cell phone by a group called "MOM". check out the National Geographic videos at the links.

tags: video wildlife research technology text messages