News U Can Use on ABC Radio June 24 – links and audio News U Can Use on ABC Radio June 24 – links and audio Uncategorized Jun 242011 June 30 coming up – people doing their accounts – and yet some people have a lot of trouble with numbers. Why is it so hard for some people to learn maths? It’s called MLD – mathematics learning disability and it may relate to how we estimate numbers – our gut instinct for numbers. It’s also been pretty cold lately and people going for comfort food – but now’s there’s research into why we eat like we do when we’re stressed? Stress causes hunger in mice. The hormone ghrelin is responsible and affects reward and pleasure senses. There’s some new research on video games that makes me feel that the Brave New World isn’t far off. Video game researchers can predict behaviours with 80% accuracy – and they want to use that to change the way we behave. People listening to NightLife go to bed informed and entertained and that’s good – because it really is bad to go to sleep angry after a fight? Research on couples in conflict shows that for some the effects of a fight can last to the next day. And do humans have a sense of the earth’s magnetism – of north and south? New research shows we have a protein that can be used by fruit flies to detect magnetic fields – do we also see them, but not recognise them. Could this be (spook alert) why some people see strange things? Listen to the conversation in the player below. Print PDF
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