cravings
Your Kids Really Can Blame You For Their Crappy Diet
Scientists believe that your junk-food cravings become established at two important phases of life: in utero, and during your teenage years. Thank your mom for your nacho obsession.
If I Could Join Nutella Addicts Anonymous, I Would
Fifty years ago this year, one of the most delicious substances on the face of our planet was invented in the back room of an Italian bakery: Nutella. Half a century after its creation, the world's insatiable appetite for the sweet, spreadable brown...
Hunger During Ramadhan Does Funny Things to a Person
As a Muslim, telling myself I won’t fast for Ramadhan is like saying Kim Kardashian isn’t going to post another selfie tomorrow. Shit ain't happening. That doesn't mean it's not hard, though.
Cure Drug Addiction by Watching Videos of Drugs
Memories aren’t immutable, recalled moments from your past just sitting on the dusty shelves of your brain. They are fluid impressions, and each time you retrieve a memory you alter it. Current research into how memory retrieval works is allowing...
Evolution Explains: Why Dogs Eat Poop
_Welcome to Evolution Explains, Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the human-animal (humanimal?) condition through the powerful scientific lenses of ecology and evolution. Don’t say you didn’t learn something. Now get to readin’ already._ Did...