The Daily Populous

Wednesday July 12nd, 2017 day edition

Lumosity doesn’t actually improve your cognitive skills
Authored by engadget.com
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Specifically, they wanted to see whether cognitive training could change behavior, leading users to prefer delayed or less risky rewards.

They set up young adults with the brain training app Lumosity; each participant completed a grand total of 50 sessions over 10 weeks.

In other words, the only thing that using Lumosity improved was users' ability to play the games in Lumosity.

This isn't all that surprising, given the history of brain training apps such as Lumosity.

Last year, parent company Lumos Labs was ordered to pay $2 million to the FTC because of charges it misled the public.

And way back in 2014, a Florida State University-based team determined that playing Portal 2 actually improves cognitive skills, while Lumosity does not.

This current study is just another nail in the coffin for the brain training fad. »

Jared Kushner 'tried and failed to get a $500m loan from Qatar before pushing Trump to take hard line against country'
Authored by independent.ie

Jared Kushner tried and failed to secure a $500m loan from one of Qatar's richest businessmen, before pushing his father-in-law to toe a hard line with the country, it has been alleged.

Jared Kushner 'tried and failed to get a $500m loan from Qatar before pushing Trump to take hard line against country'.

“They said they would take a hard line on funding, extremism, and all reference was pointing to Qatar.” »

Scotland becomes the first nation to give free access to sanitary products
Authored by the-pool.com

LATEST NEWS Scotland becomes the first nation to give free access to sanitary products 1 min.

Scotland has become the first country in the world to give low-income women free access to sanitary products, in a pilot programme launched today.

CFINE’s chief executive, Dave Simmers, linked the growing issue of period poverty to increasingly severe austerity measures in the United Kingdom. »

In pictures

image for Concession prices at the Atlanta Falcons' new stadium
image for Made my first trip up to Mt. Hood [OC][4061 X 2973]
image for Hot damn them cables
image for Asked if I could take his picture, he said "no hablo inglés" and then said "I'm just f**king with you, go ahead..."
image for Conor McGregor's suit of "Fuck you"
image for My blinds acting as a camera obscura
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image for MULLET + PERM = MERM
image for Conor Mcgregor's suit [X-post from /r/MMA]
image for My mother in-law
image for The New York Times journalist who broke the Russia email story.
image for My neighbor's Bernese puppy with her own mini-me.
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