Hearing Better than a Barn Owl – Saptarshi Das

Catchy tunes

The human brain can recognize a familiar song within a tenth to a third of a second, highlighting the deep hold favorite tunes have on our memory.

Idle hands

Proactively planning to manage temptations may be more effective than simply responding to temptations when they arise.

The ACA's impact on insurance coverage

Obamacare has reduced the coverage gap between low-income and other citizens by 44% and the gap between non-whites and whites by 26.7%.

More and bigger wildfires

2016 paper predicts that for every degree of warming, precipitation has to increase by more than 15% to compensate for the drying caused by warmer temperatures.

Cancer risk halved after GI bypass surgery

After receiving bariatric or weight-loss surgery, those who lost more than 20% of their total weight were half as likely to develop cancer compared to people who didn't lose as much weight loss those surgeries.

Normal body weight can hide eating disorder

Newly developed category - atypical anorexia nervosa - used classify and treat individuals with normal body weight who nevertheless have the disorder.

College admissions

After joining the Common Application program, colleges experience a 10% jump in the number of applications for admission, rising to 25% after a decade.