The Geek

Unpopular opinion: Beyoncé didn’t make the beat sicker. It was Gerald Oster who sneezed on the beat when he co-opted H.W. Dove’s neuro-auditory revelations into his experimentation with binaural beats: an auditory illusion perceived when two different pure-tone sine wave frequencies are presented to a listener dichotically (each to an ear). Otherwise known as “entrainment” for the beats’ … Read more

Not everyone drinks to the point of a hangover. Not everyone drinks period. But I’m guessing that, on both counts, you do. (That’s why you’re here, right?) So the real question comes down to: Are you reading this in preparation or escape? Because let’s face it: There is no escape. When you’re hungover, you’re hungover. While there … Read more

Dementia pugilistica is a term used to mistakenly describe demented pugs as well as accurately signify a state of neurodegeneration commonly associated with boxers–i.e. pugilists. Apparently, receiving hits to the head over and over has repercussions. However, it’s not the only term we use to describe head injury, other titles including: Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) Traumatic Brain Injury … Read more

They say a healthy lifestyle with a good diet, lots of exercise and proper sleep can work wonders for the student’s brain. But what they don’t tell you is that it eating, exercising, and sleeping during a test doesn’t help improve exam scores. This is why students resort to a “quick fix” of mental energy during exams and … Read more

I am super motivated! …to binge-watch Netflix tonight. I am insanely driven! …to sleep in until noon. I am crazy ambitious! …about eating this entire cake. To a degree we’re all motivated, driven, and ambitious (woo redundancy!), some more so than others. But it isn’t simply a matter of being more motivated than someone else that establishes … Read more