Three articles this month, all of them on biology. The first one is only a scientific article in the vaguest sense and talks about the cognitive benefits to gained from travel. The second one weighs in on the age old debate of cats versus dogs and the last one concerns a recent development that could lead to superhuman strength being a reality.

The first article is less formal than the usual stuff that I link to as part of this series and frankly I didn’t think it’s a bit too long for the ideas it presents, but it does make for a rather good if somewhat obvious point: that travel expands the mind and opens us to possibilities that otherwise wouldn’t have occurred to us. What sets this observation apart is that the article cites experiments performed by psychologist Lile Jia at Indiana University. He assigned tasks to two group of students with one group told that the task was from a place far away while another group was told that the task came from somewhere nearby.

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