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Here are this morning’s:

* Kids who eat candy every day more likely to become violent adults — link between candy and violence remained constant even after controlling for other factors such as parenting, geography, lack of education after the age of 16 — all links back to delayed gratification

* A nasal spray to improve memory — a molecule from the body’s immune system, when administered through the nose, helps the brain retain emotional and procedural memories during REM sleep — IL-6 had previously been considered a by-product of inflammation, not an agent that affects cognition

* Religious artifacts as counter-cyclical assets — there are no atheists in market troughs — sort of fits with this, doesn’t it?

* Sleep your way thin — two hormones, ghrelin and leptin, help to control appetite — “when you do not get enough rest, levels of ghrelin, which increases hunger, rise; levels of leptin, which promotes feelings of fullness, sink.”

* Everybody lies, a lot — 3 times within the first 10 minutes you meet someone — “Without the lies we tell each other our social lives would be a lot more painful.”