Some numbers might be Evil or Odious but others are Happy. A Happy number can be described like this: “If you iterate the process of summing the squares of the decimal digits of a number, then it is easy to see that you either reach the cycle 4→16→37→58→89→145→42→20→4 or arrive at 1. In the latter case […]
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Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety Survey
A look back at yet another presumably surprising discovery: “Personifications of Death and Death Anxiety,” Richard Lonetto, Journal of Personality Assessment, vol. 46, no. 4, 1982. The author, at the University of Guelph, explains: “University students, graduate nursing students, and funeral service students completed Templer’s Death Anxiety Scale (DAS) and a Death Personification Exercise (DPE). […]
Extraocular Phototransduction: more than meets the eye? (part 2)
We recently drew attention to the 1998 discovery at Cornell regarding the possibility of tweaking one’s cicadian rhythms by shining a bright light at the back of one’s knees. But continuing research into extraocular (outside the eye) light stimuli has turned to the possibility of a more direct route. Why not shine a light directly […]
Extraocular Phototransduction: more than meets the eye? (part 1)
If you are unlucky enough to be suffering from the debilitating effects of long-haul jet-lag, you could try shining a very bright light into your popliteal fossae (the backs of your knees). The potential of this technique as a way of shifting the phase of one’s circadian clock was first described by professors Scott S. […]