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By now, many of us have already failed to see through our New Year's resolutions to eat better, exercise more, be healthier. Researcher Brian Wansink looks at eating habits — and it turns out, the key to healthy eating isn't what you think. This story, and more, below ...
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"Most people think they're master and commander of their own diet," says Brian Wansink of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab. But in fact, healthy eating has very little to do with willpower. In one study, he and colleagues set up a table in which two out of four bowls of soup continually refilled from an apparatus hidden underneath the table. Participants given the self-refilling bowls ate 73 percent more, but didn’t feel any more sated. Find out how we might be how we eat. Read more »
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When Michelangelo unveiled his ambitious paintings for the Sistine Chapel in the 16th century, the works touched off a very modern-sounding social media scandal. Vatican Museums art historian Elizabeth Lev gives the lowdown, including the story of Michelangelo's own delightful moment of painterly revenge. Read more »
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When Behnaz Babazadeh was young, her family moved from Afghanistan to the US. She loved almost everything about her new home — especially America’s amazing selection of candy. But on her first day of American school, she found herself being grilled by the school security guard because she was wearing a burka. Now she wants to talk about why the burka is seen as so threatening. What better way to start the conversation than to make herself a burka out of Gummi Bears? Read more »
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Ok, so America hasn't even made it to the presidential debates, yet it already feels like the election season has dragged on for a lifetime. So as you watch the candidates vie for their party's nomination, here's another game to play at home: use Amy Cuddy's insights to interpret their body language — both the parts of it they're aware of, and the moves that are less conscious. Read more »
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Born and raised in Seoul, Suki Kim posed as an English teacher at an all-male university in Pyongyang run by evangelical Christians; she spent six months teaching the 19-year-old sons of North Korea’s ruling class. In this excerpt from her investigative memoir, she describes the experience. Read more »
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Featured photograph from Stocksy.
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