Paul Bradbury

Found! The Seat of Embarrassment in Your Brain

Ever wonder why your pulse races and your heart beats faster and you start to sweat when you’re embarrassed?

Shaming people into washing their hands

In a study that tracked hand-washing behavior in 250,000 people, researchers from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine found that only a third of men washed with soap, compared with two thirds of women, the BBC reports. Authors of the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health, used sensors to monitor [...]