Health and Psychology
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
Human body and mind: medicine, mental health, neuroscience, ADHD, and everyday psychology.
#6155: Acupuncture, Adenosine, and the Sham Needle Problem
Acupuncture beats sham by about a fifth of a standard deviation. So what is the sham actually subtracting?
#6122: Explaining Misophonia to the People You Love
18.4% of adults meet the threshold for misophonia. Only 13.6% have ever heard the word. Here's how to bridge that gap.
#6121: Hearing Speech in Noise: What Actually Works
Over-the-counter hearing aids, AirPods Conversation Boost, and neural speech separation — what works when your audiogram is normal but the café isn't.
#6120: What Actually Helps When Sound Is Too Much
Misophonia and hyperacusis treatments are thin but not empty — and the ADHD sound-sensitivity gap is more interesting than it looks.
#6118: What NRR Actually Means for Your Ears
That 34 dB rating on the box? Real-world protection is closer to 13. Here's how to actually pick hearing protection.
#6117: Earmuffs, Earplugs, and the Café Speech Problem
Why noise-cancelling headphones kill the espresso machine but leave the wedding planning next to you perfectly audible.
#6116: Why Noise Makes You Snap at Your Kid
The drill stops, but the anger doesn't. What Glass and Singer found about noise, control, and the tantrum two hours later.
#6080: Breastfeeding the Way Humans Actually Did It
!Kung mothers nursed every 13 minutes. Aka babies latched themselves 70% of the time. What traditional societies reveal about modern struggles.
#6079: Why Cupping Shows Up in Five Ancient Traditions
From Phelps's purple shoulders to Yiddish "bankes" — why the same suction technique was reinvented by five medical traditions.
#6074: The Worst Documentaries of 2026 (So Far)
Awards for the year's worst documentaries: recycled premises, infomercials, a two-week Instadoc, Mr. T's verdict on his own film, and Melania's 90-point critic-audience gap.
#6061: MARPE, Tirzepatide, and AI on CBCT: Sleep Apnea's New Tools
MARPE's bone share, the first real MARPE sleep apnea trial, and what tirzepatide did to oral appliances — plus AI reading sutures on CBCT.
#6057: Why Your Recorded Voice Sounds Like a Stranger
Bone conduction, brain prediction, and identity — why hearing your own voice on tape makes you cringe, and what changes when AI can speak for you.
#6046: Five Jobs, One Laptop: The Overemployed Playbook
A British civil servant allegedly held five full-time jobs at once — until his make-up started separating on a Teams call. What the overemployed pl...
#6020: What Buildings Do to Your Body
Measured cortisol, pupil dilation, and fractal dimensions reveal how traditional and modernist buildings shape your nervous system.
#5999: Who Teaches Actors Those Accents?
Dialect coaches break accents into six moves, not forty — and the science says imitation ability is a bell curve, not a gift.
#5988: Can You Engineer a Toddler's Accent?
A 15-month-old, a 20-word posh vocabulary list, and the science of whether you can actually install an accent on purpose.
#5986: Electronics Kits for Toddlers? What Actually Works
No kit exists for a 15-month-old — but the age question splits into three windows: kits at 5, breadboards at 10, microcontrollers at 13.
#5985: Meccano at 125: What Kids Actually Learn From Bolts
Meccano just relaunched for its 125th year — but does childhood tinkering actually build lasting engineering intuition?
#5983: Inside the Barcelona Breathing Cure for APD
Four versions of one treatment for abdominophrenic dyssynergia — and almost nobody outside Barcelona offers it.
#5943: Tourniquets From Belts and Socks: What Actually Works
No commercial tourniquet on the ridge — so students built them from belts and socks. What the evidence actually says about improvised tourniquets.