Saturday, November 21, 2009

running makes mice smarter

So, mice who are forced to run on a treadmill at a faster pace than they would choose are smarter. Does this mean when I force myself to run faster than a steady pace, say, do sprint repeats or tempo runs, I become smarter? Or do I need some outside influence forcing me?

Phys Ed: What Sort of Exercise Can Make You Smarter?

3 comments:

Caitlin Adams said...

gotta love (read: hate) these random spam comments.

Crumbs said...

yeah- where did these spammers come from all of a sudden?

Anyway - there have been some great little articles (essays?) in the New York Times Magazine lately. This post was one of them.

Mile Posts by Dorothy Beal said...

Very cool article - thanks!

It you are the one writing the post - I think you can delete the spammers comments :) I delete them on mine!