Diabetes study: 'Mindful eating' equals traditional education in lowering weight and blood sugar

Eating mindfully, or consuming food in response to physical cues of hunger and fullness, is just as effective as adhering to nutrition-based guidelines in reducing weight and blood sugar levels in adults with Type 2 diabetes, a new study suggests.

The true, terrifying tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus - SB Nation

The true, terrifying tale of Paul the Psychic Octopus SB Nation It's been a little less than two years now. Two years of trying to forget the sounds and the shapes. If I've slept, I don't remember. He killed himself, you know. Not many people know that. I would have done the same, but I've glimpsed what awaits me ...

Book Excerpt: The Mystery Animals of Pennsylvania

In 1934, Albert Yashinsky of Shenandoah shot and killed Susan Mummey (‘Old Suss') of Ferndale seven years after she supposedly hexed him as he worked in a field adjacent to the Mummey farm. Yashinsky is said to have muttered in prison, "Those eyes! Oh, those eyes, oh how I wanted to have them closed! I could not stand them!" This incident was also connected to an appearance of some weird zooform creature, though in this case it is more obvious.

Haunting The Past

Cognitive processes are not wholly confined ‘in the head.' When you depend on an external item to aid with cognition, such as using a calculator or writing directions down on a piece of paper, the depency on the external element creates a coupled system, one external to you and one internal to you, which together can be seen as an extension of your consciousness into the environment itself. This coupled system may, in fact, be the reason why houses are haunted. Coupled systems from the past may create ‘hauntings' where external elements of cognition linger long after the coupled system was severed by the onslaught of death. It is thus up to the paranormal investigator, not to find blips and beeps on a recording device without context, but to uncover these external cognitions still at work and learn more about the context, almost as if they were archaeologists discovering bones--left over pieces of people's active beliefs and culture--in a long forgotten tomb.

Participation, Observation, and Performance (P.O.P.) in Ghost Research: Is it "Live" or a "Recording"?

I am an archaeologist. I re-define the past through the material remains of past presence that I unearth through excavation. The past becomes present in this archaeological process. But what happens when that past continues to percolate "live" (and is not a residual material remains) in the present? As an archaeologist, I know that the past is not "dead". I uncover its remains through excavation and reconstruction. But what happens when that past manifests (and interacts) because of some field practice that I have just performed?

Answer three 'why' questions: Abstract thinking can make you more politically moderate

Partisans beware! Some of your most cherished political attitudes may be malleable! Researchers report that simply answering three "why" questions on an innocuous topic leads people to be more moderate in their views on an otherwise polarizing political issue.

Church-going teens go further with school, U.S. study finds

A national U.S. study found religiously-affiliated youth are 40 percent more likely to graduate high school than their unaffiliated peers and 70 percent more likely to enroll in college.