Number of words: 618 This work suggested that memories might fade more rapidly as we age because memory is encoded by fewer neurons, and if any of these neurons fail, the memory is lost. (Photo: Representational/Pixabay) Washington: Researchers have identified the neural processes that make some memories fade rapidly while other memories persist over time. Using … Read more

Number of words: 131 Man’s search for meaning is the primary motivation in his life and not a “secondary rationalization” of instinctual drives. This meaning is unique and specific in that it must and can be fulfilled by him alone; only then does it achieve a significance which will satisfy his own will to meaning. … Read more

Number of words: 133 Does this not bring to mind the story of Death in Teheran? A rich and mighty Persian once walked in his garden with one of his servants. The servant cried that he had just encountered death, who had threatened him. He begged his master to give him his fastest horse so … Read more

Number of words: 876 Once upon a time there was a Greek, an Englishman, a German and a Spaniard. They decided they would each write a story that would do its best to explain the human condition. The Greek said, I’m going to write about a man who’s tossed about on the seas after a … Read more

Number of words: 544 Obesity levels are substantially lower in countries that consume high amounts of rice, while counties with lower average rice intake have higher obesity levels, recent findings suggest.The link between rice intake and obesity persisted even after taking into account other lifestyle and socioeconomic risk factors including total energy consumption, education, smoking, … Read more

Number of words: 3,601 What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? We psychologists have been examining the origins of ideology ever since Hitler sent us Germany’s best psychologists, and we long ago … Read more

Number of words: 652 Tank like devices called solar stills use the sun to evaporate dirty or salty water and condense the vapor into safe drinking water. But large, expensive stills can only produce enough water for a small family. Now, researchers have developed a new material that speeds the process of evaporation, enabling a … Read more

Number of words: 408 The novel, which is a form of social enquiry, and as such outside the Indian tradition, had come to India with the British. By the late 19 century, it had become established in Bengal, and then had spread. But it was only towards the end of the British period, in the … Read more

Number of words: 358 The genes are the immortals …[they] have an expectation of life that must be measured not in decades but in thousands and millions of years. In sexually reproducing species, the individual is too large too temporary a genetic unit to qualify as a significant unit of natural selection. The group of … Read more