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The next time you're faced with a high-pressure situation in sport, try squeezing your left fist tight for thirty seconds. According to a team of German sports psychologists, doing so will activate your right hemisphere, aiding automatic, skilled performance. This helps prevent choking under pressure, they say, which is linked with left-hemisphere activity, excess self-focus and conscious deliberation. Jurgen Beckmann and his colleagues tested their intervention across three studies. In the […]

It’s difficult to overstate how our growing understanding of the trillions of microbes that live on and in the human body is radically changing the way we think about health and the prevention and treatment of a myriad of diseases. Not since Darwin unleashed onto the world the concept of Natural Selection, have humans been [...]The post Breaking A Plate for Human Health appeared first on Human Food Project.

Entanglement is a fundamental tool in quantum computing and several quantum information protocols, such as quantum teleportation, quantum cryptography and quantum key distribution. The basic […] Read moreThe post Massive quantum entanglement appeared first on Mapping Ignorance.

How much of a condition can be explained by environmental influences and how much can be explained by genetic factors? This has been an outdated polemic within the life sciences […]