Anyone here from Bethesda ? Any Bethesdans in the house ? Did any of you try what ’s been going on down at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in your Ithiel Town ?
I think not .
Apparently researchers there recently finished a study of the brain bodily process of 19 human race and womanhood . Each participant was present $ 128 and ask to make choice about whether to keep it for themselves or give it to one of 64 dissimilar charities , anonymously .
The choices were :
1 ) not to donate at all and get a modest monetary reward2 ) to designate a gift at no cost to themselves3 ) to give some of their money to charity4 ) to oppose the cause at no toll to themselves5 ) or to donate to oppose the charitable group ’s work
Guess what ? All the participants gave at least some of the money away , donating $ 21 to $ 80 a part . Donating , even when it did n’t cost them their own money , activated two areas of participant ' brains : the mesolimbic internet , which is guess to play a theatrical role in reinforce life - support behaviors such as eating and intimate activeness , and the subgenual area , which helps people form social attachments to others .
The study tried to prove why give to charities makes us feel in force . If you want a copy of the entire sketch , feel devoid to e - mail Dr. Moll at mollj@ninds.nih.gov . And if you do , perhaps you could require him why they live with the numbers 64 and 128 , which , as you credibly know , are also two in the foresighted serial of figurer / computer storage card which part around 8 and keep doubling upward . Anyone know if this is formed from a sign in Qaeda 2 ? Or what the right name for that number series is ? Or what , just , the connection is ? Just curious " ¦ and we bang how smart our readers are .
