
Reading books may add years to your life.
A Yale study determined that regular readers had a 20% less chance of dying in the next 12 years than non-readers, regardless of race, education, wealth, or other factors, or other factors.
Source: Harvard Medical School

The spinal chord has its own intelligence system that controls walking.
Breakthroughs in the understanding of our spinal cord have led researchers to restore the ability to walk in previously paralyzed patients.
Source: WebMD

Brain Eating Amoeba can enter your nose in lakes, rivers, and hot springs.
Only four of the 143 people known to have been infected in the U.S. between 1962 and 2017 have survived.
Source: WebMD
Your brain might be morphing stressful family vacations into pleasant memories.
Your own mind can trick you into believing you had a better time than you actually did.
Source: New York Times


Caring for a dog could boost your brain power.
Participants in the study were in their 80s and demonstrated better mental performance after spending quality time with dogs.
Source: Harvard Medical School
Despite the common use of anesthetic drugs to induce unconscious states, barely anything is known about how they work.
That’s…reassuring.
Source: New York Times


Being a grandparent can potentially be beneficial for your brainpower.
“Those who watched their grand kids one day a week performed highest on two out of the three tests. However, women in the study who watched their grand kids five days a week or more actually scored worse on tests of mental function.” Too much of a good thing?
Source: Harvard Medical School