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StatResearchers Question Science Behind Blue Zones Longevity Concept
A 25-year-old idea that certain geographic areas produce unusually long-lived populations has influenced the longevity movement and popular media. Cardiologist Eric Topol and medical journalist Shelley Wood examined the underlying data and its commercial aspects in a STAT First O…
foxbusiness.comMarshmallow Test Critique Itself Misrepresented Original Studies
A post from @hubermanlab states that criticisms of the marshmallow test have been overstated. The original experiments measured delay of gratification on a continuum and found it predictive of certain later success measures. The account clarified how the studies were actually con…
Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)Nature Publishes Two Research Papers on Myelination and Reproducibility in Sciences
Nature has released two distinct research papers addressing key areas in neuroscience and scientific methodology. The first examines how flexible ensheathment of axons facilitates myelination in complex central nervous system networks. The second investigates reproducibility chal…