SHOCKING: 29 | Mind Blowing Facts

A 23-Year-Old's Brain Bleed Looked Like a Burst Artery Until a Scan Found One Clotted Vein Nobody Checks

Two weeks into tuberculosis treatment, a young man had a brain hemorrhage. The cause was a clot in a deep vein that most scans overlook.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

You Don’t Need Speed To Feel A Thrill, Science Explains Why

Castrol research with Brainbox tracks brain waves, heart rate, skin response and eye movement to pinpoint when driving feels thrilling instead of scary.

Motor1 · Aug 24

Daily Word Search Game #098 (Aug 24, 2026)

Expand your vocabulary with today's Daily Word Search puzzle. Choose from Easy, Medium, or Hard difficulty levels and challenge yourself to find every hidden word in this fun and addictive word search game. New themed puzzles are added daily for word game and brain teaser fans alike. Entertainment

Bored Panda · Aug 24

Two Stroke Patients Who Lost Language Solved Logic Puzzles as Well as People Who Could Speak

MIT researchers report that language and logical reasoning operate on separate brain systems, with two aphasic patients matching controls in logic tasks.

Medical Daily · Aug 24

A Tiny Cluster of Brain Cells Flips from Pain Reliever to Pain Generator, and Mice Show How to Flip It Back

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Medical Daily · Aug 24

The crying face is officially the number one emoji – but here’s why it could also be showing your age

LET’S UNPACK THAT: Emojis have become an integral feature of modern communication. As a new icon is crowned the most popular symbol of the last year on record, Lydia Spencer-Elliott looks at what its mixed meaning could do to our brains

The Independent UK · Aug 24

How the Mandukya Upanishad Mapped Dreaming as a Portal Into Human Consciousness

The Map That Starts With SleepThe Mandukya Upanishad is twelve verses long. It is also, arguably, the most structurally ambitious text in the entire Upanishadic corpus, because it attempts to account for the whole of human experience in four states. Jagrat is waking. Svapna is dreaming. Sushupti is dreamless sleep.…

Times Life · Aug 24

Eight-year-old dies after contracting rare brain-eating amoeba in Louisiana

Lillian Smart of Ruston infected with fatal Naegleria fowleri, likely after swimming in Lake Claiborne, health officials say

The Guardian - US · Aug 23

If You Aren’t In The 1% Club, Finishing This Quiz Will Be Challenging – Prove You Can

Can your brain beat the 1% Club? Take the ultimate challenge.This quiz is designed to challenge the way you think, spot patterns, and solve problems when the answer isn’t quite as obvious as it seems.You’ll face 19 brain-teasing questions inspired by the hit 1% Club TV game show.

Bored Panda · Aug 23

Psychology says people who doodle while listening may sometimes retain information differently, here’s what their brain could be doing

People who doodle while listening may not necessarily be ignoring what is being said. In some situations, doodling can act as alow-demand attentional activity, especially when the main task feels boring or repetitive. However, in other cases, free-form doodling may compete for attention with the information a person is trying…

The Economic Times · Aug 23