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5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome

5 Ways to Trick Your Body Into Being More Awesome
You might know that the main way our body regulates its biological clock (and circadian rhythm) is through light. So when your brain is detecting light, it has your body behave as it should in the daytime (higher energy, greater strength, more bowel movements, etc.), and when the brain notices that the environment is dark after an extended period of brightness, then it imagines you're about to go to sleep, and it releases hormones (like melatonin) that make you sleepy. What you might not have known is that scientists recently found a second clock, and instead of depending on light, this one is food-based. The food-clock desires this. Imagine you're a predator out hunting for food (and Jesse Ventura), but all the regular animals you would eat are nowhere to be found. Photos.comThe slaying of pizza rolls has set countless new biological mornings. It makes sense -- your brain is now under the impression that if you want to survive, you can only go hunting at night.

5 Brain Hacks That Give You Mind-Blowing Powers #2. Control Anger by Using Your Less-Dominant Hand Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com Everyone knows at least one guy who hulks out over the stupidest things -- a messed up coffee order, a red light, global warming. Usually these people are just harmless joke fodder until they road rage on an elderly person over a politically charged bumper sticker. Of course, there are all these tricks that your mom taught you that are supposed to calm you down ("Stop and count to 10!") Hemera Technologies/AbleStock.com"Somebody stop me before I rob a sperm bank and make this town disgusting." The Hack: This one comes from the University of New South Wales, who found the perfect anger-management trick, and it wasn't cool jazz music or playful kittens wearing sunglasses. Why would this possibly work? Digital Vision/Digital Vision/Getty Images"Fudge you, mother lover!" Now, you'd assume that the only way to do that would be some kind of meditation or long classes in anger management. #1. Digital Vision.

6 Mind-Blowing Things People Built in their Backyard If you are lucky enough to have a backyard instead of just, say, an alley full of garbage cans or the ass end of your neighbor's trailer, you probably feel like a hero just for keeping the grass cut. Maybe if you're really ambitious, you've done some landscaping, or maybe you're handy and have built a deck. It really doesn't matter -- whatever you've got back there doesn't compare to these mind-boggling one-man projects ... #6. The Miniature Paris firewireblog.com"This is the third time you've used 'A giant hand was blocking the bridge' as a late excuse." This may look like a Photoshopped image of a giant, nuclear-powered Frenchman descending upon Paris, but the Frenchman is actually regular-sized. firewireblog.comPeople with scale models of world cities in their backyard are 14 percent less likely to end up selling drugs. Working in his shed all by himself, Brion built his miniature Paris out of old concrete blocks, baby food jars, soup tins and other junk. #5. wiki #4.

List of memory biases In psychology and cognitive science, a memory bias is a cognitive bias that either enhances or impairs the recall of a memory (either the chances that the memory will be recalled at all, or the amount of time it takes for it to be recalled, or both), or that alters the content of a reported memory. There are many different types of memory biases, including: See also[edit] [edit] ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Schacter, Daniel L. (1999). "The Seven Sins of Memory: Insights From Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience". References[edit] Greenwald, A. (1980). 7 Mind-Blowing Ways Jobs Are Being Outsourced to Animals In this economy, millions of workers know what it's like to have their job outsourced to another country, or to get replaced by a robot. It's hard to hear that all of your advanced skill and dedication can be replaced at a fraction of the cost. What would be worse than that? Hearing that your job is now being done by an animal. Because we're telling you, animals are figuring this stuff out. Also, they don't complain and they don't get paid. #7. Getty First of all, yes, this is a tiny horse wearing sneakers. guidehorseHe's as stunned as we are. It's not a cute photo staged for one of those adorable animal calendars you get for your mom at Christmas -- that shoe-wearing horse is on the job. Like humans, horses differ in size. npr"Haha! They actually have several advantages over their canine competition, in addition to being wonderful conversation starters. guidehorseTheir spring/summer collection is almost too much. However, there are downsides to guide horses. guidehorseNo, but seriously.

7 Real Suits That Will Soon Make the World A Cooler Place From the gilded chest plate of the Greek demigods to the worsted wool of the modern day word warrior (me), humanity inherently understands the power of a suit. Every CEO, every super hero, every high-powered lesbian knows that a good suit can change the way the world sees the wearer. But it would be wrong to say that the suit is an extension of the man. It is an extension of what the man dreams of becoming, and I for one dream of becoming invincible. Having no natural predators or concrete reason for anxiety in my life, I spend my time, like most affluent people, worrying about intangible threats. One of humanity's greatest achievements came in 1961 with the first manned mission to space, and after the cheers had died and confetti had fallen, mankind collectively asked the next logical question, "yeah, but how do we fuck up there?" "Well...that was underwhelming." Enter the 2suit. Now, back to Beastmaster because I inadvertently charged over that nugget of information earlier.

6 Shockingly Evil Things Babies Are Capable Of As anyone who's ever encountered babies in the wild can tell you, they're shiftless little balls of deception and greed. Those of us who stand up to walk, and sit down to poop may not be Mother Theresa, but it turns out we had a long way to go from our babbling drooling selves. Yes, unless you're a borderline sociopath today, you were probably at your worst before you ever uttered a word. It's science! It seems crazy that a barely functioning human infant could be cunning enough to lie to get out of trouble, but it's true. Oh shut up, you piece of shit. Perhaps even more surprising is that, when they know they've done something wrong, the little bastards will distract their parents to avoid getting caught. Why Did I Do That?! Lying is considered an important part of a child's development. According to science, lying isn't something that happens when a normal baby get's corrupted by TV--it is normal human behavior. Pictured: You, if your parents were flightless birds. Survival.

5 Ways You Don't Realize Movies Are Controlling Your Brain So there was a mass shooting during a Batman movie and, goddamn it, it turned out the killer owned a Batman mask and called himself "The Joker." By now, several talking heads have come to the conclusion that the movie somehow triggered the massacre, or whatever. You know the game at this point -- sadly, we've seen this whole cycle play out more than once. As always, this knee-jerk reaction by old, scared talking heads will predictably result in most of our audience scoffing and saying that movies can't influence people to do anything, because movies are make-believe and every non-crazy member of the audience knows how to separate fact from fiction. Well, the thing is ... that is equally wrong. #5. Getty You've seen Braveheart, right? So if you don't mind, just quickly tell me which parts were fiction. Probably the part where more than the six people directly in front of him could hear what he was saying during that speech. You don't know, do you? Getty"Fetch my spear gun. No. #4. #3.

5 Bad Ideas for Dealing With Bullies You Learned in Movies Recently, I've had several people ask if I could talk about bullying. I'll be perfectly honest here, I had no idea what I could possibly say about the subject. When I was in school, we just kind of had to deal with it as best we could, any advice coming from sitcoms and movies about nerds overcoming jocks by recording their girlfriends naked in the bathroom. #5. This is the very first thing they suggest when you find yourself discovering that putting makeup on a black eye just makes you look like David Bowie. How they handled it: Arnold tells his family that he's being picked on by a bully named "The Gooch." So keep that in mind, kids. But in reality: Arnold is slightly larger than a toddler. See, most sane adults will go straight to the school. Photos.com"You do know it's school policy to torture you with acid, right?" It's bullshit like this that kept my brother quiet during his own bully fiasco. Parents were called in, and the bullies disappeared into the Principal's office. #4. #3.

5 Popular Forms of Charity (That Aren't Helping) Giving to charity is one of the most selfless things you can do. You're giving away your hard-earned money and expecting nothing in return, save the personal satisfaction of making the world just a little bit better (and the unquantifiable moral superiority you get to feel for a while). It's easy, too -- literally all you need is whatever cash you can spare and a tiny bit of awareness as to who you're going to give it to. So by all means, do it. #5. What You Think You Do By wearing a Livestrong bracelet or a pink ribbon, or perhaps growing a mustache for Movember, you're doing important work by drawing the public's attention to an issue that needs support. Why You Shouldn't Do It Sure, awareness campaigns are great ... if they're for an obscure yet noteworthy issue that needs publicity. Take breast cancer: Despite the many, many, many awareness campaigns thrown at us by everyone from our co-workers to goddamn KFC, breast cancer death rates have stayed steady over the last decade. #4. Getty

5 Things You Won't Believe Are Making You Dumber Tell people that their diets or habits are making them fat or out of shape and they shrug -- we hear that crap every day. Tell them that their habits make them stupider and you're about to have a fight. We all know that our brain is a part of our body, but nobody likes to think of their intelligence as something that can get weak and flabby due to things that are out of our control. Science says otherwise. Studies have shown ... #5. Getty Have you ever been in a situation where you had to work with other people (like a meeting at work or forming groups in school) and suddenly felt like everyone involved was suddenly dumber than normal? GettyThe subtle science of hate. It turns out that just being in meetings and group situations can drain your brain. So, the more competitive the group is, the dumber some of its members will become. Getty"Can't we just handle this separately and talk about it later? This gets even more complicated if your work group includes both men and women. #4. #3.

6 Saints With Superpowers Straight from the Marvel Universe If your only knowledge of Christian saints is that certain holidays and cities are named after them, hang on to your asses. Some of these guys went down in history because they supposedly could fly, slay dragons and function without heads. Here are the saints who were only an adamantium skeleton away from joining the X-Men. #6. wiki Life as a missionary can be tough, especially if it's in third century Paris under Roman rule. wiki"Jesus is head and shoulders above the rest! The story goes that after his execution, Denis picked up his own severed head, washed it by a spring -- apparently because he was fussy about all the blood -- and walked for about two Gallic miles (which is approximately six of ours, adjusted after inflation). wikiBut not before stopping for some bowling. Fun fact: He's the patron saint of people suffering from headaches (Catholicism has apparently never been renowned for its subtlety). newliturgicalmovement.orgHe was a head of his time. #5. wiki #4.

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