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Zero-Calorie Sweeteners Make You Fat

Political beliefs hard-wired into brain, say neuroscientists

Why too much evidence can be a bad thing

The Case Against Sugar, by Gary Taubes, review by the Atlantic

Low-calorie sweetener use is independently associated with heavier relative weight, larger waist, and higher incidence of abdominal obesity.

Don't study for exams by "studying." Instead, take practice tests, which help you remember better under stress.

Gamifiying Goodness: Reversing the Stanford Prison Experiment

Smallest sliver of time yet measured sees electrons fleeing atom...

The first ever photograph of light as both a particle and wave...

Scientists can publish their best work at any age.

Industry-funded soda studies overwhelmingly downplay health risks.

What Happens in the Brain When You Study Science

The maximum lifespan of humans is fixed and subject to natural constraints. With rare exceptions no one has lived beyond 115 years.

How Many Friends Can Your Brain Handle? - Scientific American

Why There's So Much Confusion Over Nutrition and Health, by Alan Henry of Lifehacker

The billion dollar brain training industry is a sham. It is nothing but a placebo, according to a scientific study.

The Weak Evidence Behind Brain-Training Games

Update the Nobel Prizes

Studies funded by artificial sweetener companies were 17 times more likely to find that artificial sweeteners have beneficial effects.

Fed Up Movie: Sugar is addictive poison that makes people sick, according to Robert Lustig.

The sugar industry began funding research that cast doubt on sugar’s role in heart disease (by pointing the finger at fat) in the 1960s.

Americans Are Now More Politically Polarized On Climate Change Than Ever Before, New Scientific Analysis Finds

Do You Believe in God, or Is That a Software Glitch?

A great new resource from Examine.com on how to read a scientific study. Very useful to parse all the bad media stories.

Cinnamon is good for memory improvement. Or is it?

Women Scientists with Feminine Appearance are Deemed Less Likely to be Scientists

Why science is so hard to believe

The Backfire Effect: The Psychology of Why We Have a Hard Time Changing Our Minds, by Brain Pickings

How conservatives lost their faith in science

Why Do So Many Studies Fail to Replicate?

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Scientific Studies

Failure Is Moving Science Forward, by FiveThirtyEight

Adam Ruins Everything published the script for the health ep in Advances in Nutrition and Food Technology to prove they'll publish anything.