Today we explore the science behind getting great ideas in the shower, how regular chocolate consumption can slow down cognitive decline, and how a black hole recently burped out the remnants of a star it absorbed four YEARS ago!
Shower Ideas
- “The Science of Why You Have Great Ideas in The Shower” by Stacey Colino
- “An improved neuroanatomical model of the default-mode network reconciles previous neuroimaging and neuropathological findings” by Pedro Nascimento Alves, Chris Foulon, Vyacheslav Karolis, Danilo Bzdok, Daniel S. Margulies, Emmanuelle Volle & Michel Thiebaut de Schotten
Medicinal Chocolate
- “Daily Chocolate May Rescue The Brain From Cognitive Decline” by Gary Wenk
- “Daily multi-vitamins may improve brain function in older people – US study” by Ian Sample
Black Holes Burping
- “‘We’ve Never Seen Anything Like This Before:’ Black Hole Spews Out Material Years After Shredding Star” by Harvard Center for Astrophysics
- “Ask Ethan: Are Black Holes Made Of Dark Matter?” by Ethan Siegel
- “A Mildly Relativistic Outflow Launched Two Years after Disruption in Tidal Disruption Event AT2018hyz” by Y. Cendes et al.
- “Black hole is 'burping out' a 'spaghettified' star it devoured years ago” by Robert Lea
- “Are black holes and dark matter the same?” by University of Miami
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