Fall?
Falling out of love, you say? And you think it is all happening rather unpredictably? Betrayal, fight, drift, distancing, breakup?
You may be wrong, assert social scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz the University of Bern in “Terminal Decline of Satisfaction in Romantic Relationships: Evidence from Four Longitudinal Studies,” published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology recently.
Researchers analyzed data from four major longitudinal
Fresh!
Fruits are perishable. They turn soft. They turn brown. They become moldy. Yup, fruits are perishable. Especially bananas.
But no more, said Gilad Gershon, chief executive of Tropic, a Norwich (UK)-based biotech company, thanks to whom we might be getting bananas that stay fresh for several hours post-peeling. Declared Gershon triumphantly:
No more slimy, brown bananas!”
Enzymic browning is the main culprit behind those “slimy, brown bananas.” Fresh fruit and vegetables
Happiness!
The right to happiness is hardwired in us (and enshrined in the US constitution as an “unalienable right” of humans “endowed by their Creator”). It is an obsession stoked by promises from the gurus of bliss, the influencers of Instagram, and the campaigns of corporations, all seeking to empty our bank accounts as we go all out to be happy.
Not a good idea, declare researchers at the University of Toronto Scarborough and the University of Sydney Business School in
Sure?
Nope, we are not. But we trust in … AI.
Or so proclaimeth a study recently published in Scientific Reports: “Overtrust in AI Recommendations About Whether or Not to Kill: Evidence from Two Human-Robot Interaction Studies” by researchers from University of California, Merced, and from The Pennsylvania State University.
To create a sense of gravity around their simulated decisions, researchers first showed participants images of innocent civilians, including children,
Devotional on Psalm 21
Here’s a devotional I did online for my church (Ninth and O Baptist Church: they call it a “Devotionable”) the other day. On Psalm 21.
Fat!
You grow old, you decline. It’s a fact of life. “Senior moments” increase in frequency, and serious memory issues and thinking problems abound.
Well, there might now be an unexpected solution. OK, maybe not a solution, but at least a better understanding of how we might conceive of trying to attempt to endeavor to struggle to slow it all down.
The unexpected “solution”? Belly fat.
Thus saith “Adipose Chemokine Ligand CX3CL1 Contributes to Maintaining the Hippocampal
Abe Kuruvilla is the Carl E. Bates Professor of Christian Preaching at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary (Louisville, KY), and a dermatologist in private practice. His passion is to explore, explain, and exemplify preaching.