Jordan Rosenfeld
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Silicon Valley, CA, United States
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10 Scientific Benefits of Kissing
While there are plenty of obvious pleasures of smooching, there are also some remarkable health benefits, backed by science. → Read More
8 Mundane Elements You Should Cut From Your Story
Realism has its role, but don't let it bog down your novel. Heed the advice of bestselling author Jordan Rosenfeld about pitfalls that can bore your reader. → Read More
8 Scientific Benefits of Napping
Whether you bow down to the ritual of a mid-afternoon siesta or never stop to snooze, you may think twice about the power of napping after reading about its many benefits. → Read More
When You Feel "Chemistry" With Someone, What's Actually Going On?
We know chemistry when we feel it, but we don't always know why we're drawn to one person over another. Science has some answers … but not all of them. → Read More
10 Scientifically Proven Ways to Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions
Arm yourself with the best methods for making your resolutions a reality. → Read More
10 Scientifically Proven Ways to Stick to Your New Year's Resolutions
New Year's resolutions have a habit of being broken more than any other goals. This year, arm yourself with the best methods for making your resolutions a reality. → Read More
9 Fascinating Facts About the Vagus Nerve
The vagus nerve is at the center of an exciting new field of treatment that leaves medications behind. → Read More
10 Smart Facts About Your Gut
Your gut has millions of neurons. And that's just one of its intelligent features. → Read More
How Do Placebos Work?
There's a very real reason why your grandmother’s chicken soup makes you feel better when you're sick. → Read More
11 Facts About Fingernails
They're more than just a place to dab polish. → Read More
11 Facts About the Appendix
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More
WalMart Has Filed a Patent for Autonomous Robotic Bees to Serve as Pollination Drones
Walmart, one of the biggest retail corporations in the U.S., has filed a patent for an autonomous robot bee. Robotic bees may soon help honeybees pollinate food. → Read More
11 Facts About Fingernails
Test your knowledge with amazing and interesting facts, trivia, quizzes, and brain teaser games on MentalFloss.com. → Read More
Fake News 'Travels Farther, Faster, Deeper and More Broadly Than the Truth'
The idea of fake news might almost be amusing, except that it has demonstrated the power to influence politics, economics—a fake tweet in 2015 about President Obama being injured tanked the stock market by $130 billion dollars for a few hours—and, frankly, our emotional well-being. → Read More
Empathic People Get Burned Out Easily, Scientists Recommend Compassion Instead
Over-empathizing might be making us emotionally burned out and unwell, leading to such states as “compassion fatigue,” or “secondary trauma,” which affects first responders and caregivers at higher rates. In these states, a person can begin to feel numb, depressed, anxious, or even inexplicably angry. → Read More
11 Scientific Benefits of Having a Laugh
Laughter might not always be the best medicine, but humor-associated laughter does have numerous health benefits. → Read More
Is Vaping Safer Than Smoking Cigarettes? What Are the Health Risks?
Recent research has begun to look more closely at these allegedly reduced risks of vaping to health and finding them not as benign as they had initially thought. → Read More
Scientists May Have Just Discovered a New Organ—And It Could Be the Biggest Yet
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8 Ways to Tell If Someone Is Lying to You
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8 Ways to Tell If Someone Is Lying to You
3. A liar avoids eye contact at the moment of untruth. → Read More