Our “anecdotal” brain sucks up all the sensational news a media (vying for higher ad revenues) can muster. This results in some skewed gut feelings of what we should be afraid of.
Wired’s book review of Dan Gardner’s The Science of Fear includes a quiz that is worth taking.
Scientific American Magazine - July 25, 2008
By Michael Shermer
Key points in this article: sleeping allows us to learn. It cements our memories, but also culls them, keeping the ones that are emotionally related. Our brains also solve problems/discover patterns while we sleep. We need about 6 hours of continuous sleep to achieve this, both slow-wave and REM.
Scientific American Mind - August 7, 2008
Neuroeconomics
A new school of economists is controversially turning to neuroscience to improve the dismal science
July 22, 2008 in Mind & Brain |SciAm.com
Human evolution
Feb 21st 2008 | BOSTON
From The Economist print edition
Cognition nutrition
Jul 17th 2008
From The Economist print edition
It seems false memories are formed at the time of recall, which has interesting potential consequences for using sleep deprivation as an interrogation technique.
And chalk one up for coffee for the sleep deprived.
But caffeine helps to boost accurate recall
From this article I have concluded that if you’re on a diet, you shouldn’t be looking through Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition before dinner. But if you run a restaurant, that’s a good magazine to leave in the waiting area. 
By Robin Nixon, Special to LiveScience
posted: 10 June 2008 ET
Although it started out as a means of practising expressing myself, this blog is turning out to be more of a compendium of interesting information I come across. One of these days I’ll have to actually write something as opposed to cut and paste.
