60-Second Mind

Scientific American

4.1 (52)
SCIENCE

Tune in every Saturday for quick commentary on the latest news in behavior and brain research—it'll just take a minute

02/14/2015

Up Your Online Dating Game with Evidence-Based Strategies

Choosing a user name starting with a letter appearing earlier in the alphabet is just one scientifically vetted way to increase the odds of turning an online encounter into a first date. Christopher Intagliata reports

3 min
02/07/2015

Junk Diet Rewires Rat Brains

High-calorie and exceedingly pleasurable foods appear to change rat brain rewards circuitry, causing the rodents to continue to seek such fare. Erika Beras reports

3 min
01/31/2015

High Price Tag on Meds May Boost Healing

Parkinson’s patients derived more benefits from a salt solution they were told was an expensive drug than from the same solution when it was described as being cheap medication. Karen Hopkin reports

3 min
12/30/2014

Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits

Of studies presented at conferences, those that found a cognitive benefit to bilingualism were almost twice as likely to get published in journals as were studies finding no benefit. Karen Hopkin reports

3 min
12/20/2014

Inclusion Illusion Lessens Racial Bias

Implicit bias against another race lessened after volunteers experienced themselves via virtual reality as a member of that race. Karen Hopkin reports

3 min
12/15/2014

Blood Test Forecasts Concussion Severity

Levels of a protein fragment in the blood paralleled how long head injuries benched hockey players. Ingrid Wickelgren reports

3 min
12/08/2014

Bouncy Gait Improves Mood

If you're in an up mood, you may walk more energetically. But a study finds that purposefully walking more energetically may improve your mood. Christie Nicholson reports

3 min
11/09/2014

Synchronized Walking Reduces Opponent's Perceived Size

Subjects who kept pace with a walking colleague estimated a potential enemy to be smaller and lighter than did other walkers who were not marching. Karen Hopkin reports

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Interesting bites of information

08/04/2013

anyblock

This podcast provides interesting bites of information. I wish it were not two volume clicks louder than all other podcasts.
Science Bites

02/27/2012

Eph109

Even if you are trained in science, these are great tid bits to keep your mind fresh. Great for kids
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01/06/2013

Ty2Runr

I have been getting 8006 errors while trying to download any of the 60-whatever podcasts for the past couple weeks. Can this be fixed?
Your 60 Second Podcasts will not download in iTunes

01/02/2013

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None of you 60 Second Podcasts will download in iTunes. I restarted, verified downloads with other podcasts. Yours simply do not work.