witofatwit t1_j6iou46 wrote on January 30, 2023 at 4:47 PM

Reply to The name of this Wattle made me giggle by tim---mit

This here's the wattle, the emblem of our land. You can stick it in a bottle, you can hold it in your hand.

witofatwit t1_isql4ds wrote on October 17, 2022 at 11:34 PM

Reply to comment by AadamAtomic in Some seabirds survive typhoons by flying into them. Streaked shearwaters nesting on islands off Japan sometimes head straight toward passing typhoons, where they fly near the eye of the storm for hours at a time. It’s the first time this behavior has been observed in any bird species. by MistWeaver80

The logic is sound, but it doesn't explain why of the "75 monitored shearwaters, [only] 13 flew to within 60 kilometers of the eye"

It it was truly a sound tactic to reserve energy one would expect greater than 25% of bird to do the same.

witofatwit t1_irtto5u wrote on October 11, 2022 at 12:07 AM

Reply to comment by Wagamaga in Meditation may protect older people against Alzheimer’s, the most common form of dementia. Researchers found meditation was superior to non-native language training on changing a global composite score and two of its subscores reflecting attention regulation and socio-emotional capacities by Wagamaga

I'm having a hard time finding from where the title draws it's implied conclusion. The study associated with the headline found showed no positive correlation between decreased dementia and meditation.

Instead it found that..."Results indicate that the 18-month meditation-based intervention did not significantly modify the volume of the ACC and insula in older adults compared with a passive or active control, respectively; the between-group differences did not reach statistical significance for perfusion either. Regarding the main secondary outcomes, there were significant effects of meditation compared with non-native language training on the global composite score reflecting attention regulation, socioemotional, and self-knowledge capacities and two-thirds of its constituent subscores"

Are the secondary outcomes associated the lowered dementia risk?