Another 5 sketches with take-home messages from some fascinating scientific papers! One pound of lead feels heavier than one pound of feathers (if in boxes of the same size) because psychology! Details: A foolproof way to win a bet (feathers and lead)

(Some of these make me cringe, but there’s only one way to get better this. 🙂) What matters more when you’re enjoying a music performance — sight or sound? Sight, by a large margin! Hearing professionals perform doesn’t help you guess who won the competition, but when you see them…

Narcissism is one of those epithets nobody wants to earn — it’s a character trait highly associated with vanity and egoism, brandished by the people we tell ourselves we would never think to consider as friends. But what does the observer know about the experiment they’re in? It turns out narcissists…

What we know as human society is held together by interpersonal relationships - on one hand, it’s the give-and-take equilibria between persons or social groups and the expectations of reciprocally beneficial behavior, and on the other, the feelings of closeness, trust, and personalistic self-disclosure. The study I’m about to present…

The debate on the business of citation accumulation in scientific publishing is long and deep-rooted, but the science of citation accumulation — not so much. In this little post, I’m summarizing some of the interesting research done on the effect that titles have on the number of citations a scientific…

Here we go again, it’s that time of the year for the northern hemisphere — summer. Eternal sunshine. Blistering heat and daily temperatures reaching the heights needed to melt thoughts. Good news? It’s done in a few months, and then we can all complain about the cold and rain again…

I’ve heard you need clickbait titles to catch the interest of internet strangers, and this one is right on the money. So hello there, let me tell you about how country music is going to kill you. There’s a short and sweet paper from the early nineties that has played…