Daydream Believer

It's time to let your mind wander!! Daydreaming is more than simple escapism according to MIT researchers Susan Whitfield-Gabrieli and John Gabrieli. By using devices to scan the brain's activity during daydreaming, "it turns out that cultivating an active idle mind, or teaching yourself how to daydream effectively, might actually encourage the sort of long-range neural connections that make us smart."

Read more about the correlation between IQ and staring out the window... :)

http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2010/01/intelligence_and_the_idle_mind.php

Exercise Will Not Make You Lose Weight, Seriously!?

Bad news my friends, it seems like more and more scientific evidence shows that exercise won't make you lose weight. Yup. It's a sad state of affairs when you realize those hours of spinning (painful on the tush) and pole dancing (do I look like a slut in these lucite stilettos?) classes are not going to do sh*t.

Okay, being a little dramatic here. Exercise is certainly good for your health on many levels, helping you to look and feel good. But if you're interested in dropping some weight it turns out that DIET is a key ingredient to weight loss and "intense workout in the gym is actually less effective than gentle exercise in terms of weight loss". Eating a diet with an abundance of fruits and veggies, pumping up your whole grain game, cutting out sugar and just eating LESS will help increase weight loss.

Read more about what UK scientists have found: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/sep/19/exercise-dieting-public-health

Moonwalking

From our friends at The Dirty Social Blog, their WTF? post for the week has bird MOONWALKING (and a very enthusiastic scientist).

The Periodic Table of Videos

For the geeks and those who wish they paid more attention in Chemistry class (totally projecting here) comes a new way to learn about the periodic table. The University of Nottingham has brought the 19th Century table into the 21st Century with interactive multimedia. Click on any element to watch a video to find out what it does.

Below is a video on Nitrogen, number 7 on the periodic table and the most abundant element in Earth's atmosphere. It's responsible for Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas). Watch how the gas pours like a liquid in the video below. Now you can school the dentist!

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A Butterfly Never Forgets!

When a caterpillar turns into a butterfly, the transformation is so radical that it's hard to believe they belong to the same species.

But regardless of the new wings and body, the new diet and airborne lifestyle, butterflies remember what they learned as babies.

Read more here.

SOURCE: WIRED.COM