Life & Style

Disney Fans, Rejoice! A Brand New Disney Theme Park Is Coming
00:23 2017-12-11

Members of the Mickey Mouse club, it’s time to start planning your next Disney vacation. And no, we’re not talking about the average trip to California or Florida. While the “Happiest” and “Most Magical” places on earth certainly have their charms—and here’s the difference between the two parks—you might need to take a longer flight …

OMG: The Longest Word in English Is 189,819 Letters Long
22:14 2017-12-10

You can read the whole thing here, but if you don’t think this monstrous moniker should be considered a real English word, you’d find some support from linguists. As a technical scientific term, the full name of titin doesn’t appear in any dictionary—not just because it would take 12 full pages to wrangle the 190,000-odd …

Oxford tops ranking of world’s best universities
20:05 2017-12-10

For the first time in 14 years, an American college didn’t crack the top two in a ranking of the best universities in the world, the Independent reports, citing Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2018 list. United Kingdom-based Oxford and Cambridge Universities came in No1 and No 2, respectively. Times Higher Ed reviews the …

Genes behind higher education linked to lower risk of Alzheimer’s
19:10 2017-12-10

Using genetic information, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden provide new evidence that higher educational attainment is strongly associated with a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease. The causes of Alzheimer’s disease are largely unknown and treatment trials have been disappointing. This has led to increasing interest in the potential for reducing the disease by targeting …

Physical & cognitive fitness tied to better working memory
18:06 2017-12-10

A new study is the first to establish a link between working memory, physical health, and lifestyle choices. Mount Sinai researchers discovered a positive relationship between the brain network associated with working memory and healthy traits such as higher physical endurance and better cognitive function. As Psych Central reports, working memory is defined as the …