All the Essential Gear You Need for The Rapture
The world is ending tomorrow. Maybe. Odds are, if you’re a Gizmodo reader, you’ll be stuck down here with the rest of us sinners—pick up this apocalyptic hardware beforehand. Lock Picks You know what the best part of the Rapture will be? The looting, of course. With all the goodie goodies sucked up into Heaven,…
Your spine keeps a record of all your body’s pain
You slam your hand in a door, and the experience becomes etched into your brain. You remember the swinging panel, the sound as it crushes your flesh, and the pain as your skin gives way. Your body remembers it too. For days afterwards, the neurons in your spine carry pain signals more easily form your…
Easily Distracted People May Have Too Much Brain
Those who are easily distracted from the task in hand may have “too much brain”. So says Ryota Kanai and his colleagues at University College London, who found larger than average volumes of grey matter in certain brain regions in those whose attention is readily diverted. To investigate distractibility, the team compared the brains of…