Porn Is Killing Your Short-Term Memory

Porn Is Killing Your Short-Term Memory

Porn on the Brain Give your eyes a rest. Looking at porn can interfere with working memory, suggests a new study from Germany. Researchers who showed men a series of images – some pornographic, some not – and then had them complete memory tests noted a drop in...
Survive Airport Hell

Survive Airport Hell

Grab Some Juice You don’t have to elbow up to a public charging station if you bring your own power source like Mophie’s Juice Pack Air (R499, igear.co.za). Charge your devices only to about 80%; that final 20% drains your back-up battery faster. Catch Some Z’s If the...

Pavlok, The Personal Coach That’s On Your Wrist

Pavlok is a fitness wristband monitor and smartphone app that tracks your daily performance and encourages the user to keep fitness levels up as well as pushing them towards workout goals. This fitness band does not just track you’re your daily workouts but it is...
Loneliness Linked To More Fitful Sleep

Loneliness Linked To More Fitful Sleep

“We may all be dependent on feeling secure in our social environment in order to sleep soundly,” says Lianne Kurina from the University of Chicago.” Loneliness may disrupt sleep. This is according to this study of 95 older Hutterites, who live in...
Why You Shouldn’t Try To Stop Yourself From Yawning

Why You Shouldn’t Try To Stop Yourself From Yawning

The Purpose Of Yawning According to a study on Frontiers in Evolutionary Neuroscience, yawning may cool your brain when the air outside is cooler than your body. Researchers analyzed how frequently people yawned in the summer and the winter in Tucson, Arizona. They...