Tea, when brewed and poured, is a liquid perfectly suited to filling otherwise empty space on a news site. It exactly fills whatever quantity and shape of space needs filling. Here’s an example, from the BBC news web site. The headline, as you can see, says: “Male tea drinkers ‘at greater risk of prostate cancer‘”: […]
Tag: Coffee
Coffee Goodness/Badness Question Re-Settled Again
The question “Is coffee good or bad for your health” just got settled once and for all again, with a new answer that contradicts many previous studies, again. A new study presents a conclusion that answers everything, or nothing, or both: “Association of Coffee Drinking with Total and Cause-Specific Mortality,” Neal D. Freedman, Ph.D. [pictured […]
Theory ‘o Everything: Rats, Coffee, Drugs, Booze, Decisions
A new study involves rats, coffee, amphetamines, booze, decision-making, and lots more. It answers a good percentage of the questions you might care to ask about psychology or anything else. The study is: “Sensitivity to Cognitive Effort Mediates Psychostimulant Effects on a Novel Rodent Cost/Benefit Decision-Making Task,” Paul J Cocker, Jay G Hosking, James Benoit […]
Mathematicians’ Dilemma: anxiety vs. coffee
By tradition and for other reasons, some mathematicians spend some of their time wondering whether stress causes some of their sleeplessness or all of it, or whether coffee causes all of their sleeplessness or some of it, or whether they should direct their worry partly or fully toward something else. Next week, at a conference […]