The pseudoscience phrenology swept the popular imagination, and its practitioners made a mint preying on prejudices, gullibility, and misinformation.
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Research suggests curiosity triggers parts of the brain associated with anticipation, making answers more rewarding once discovered.
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From tribal hunts to Stonehenge and into the modern day, the peer instinct helps humans coordinate their efforts and learning.
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Memories aren’t mental recordings, but pliable information we can use to better manage the present and conjure future possibilities.
Professional astronomy images are the gold standard. But this Large Magellanic Cloud composite is the amateur community’s best image ever.
Alex Edmans, professor of finance at the London Business School, warns us to be mindful of the incentives surrounding misinformation — including our desire to believe it.
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Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
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Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.
Executive coach Jodi Wellman explains how to “make it to the end with no regrets.”
“It doesn’t erase what happened to you. It just changes the impact it has on your life.”
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Just a small gesture or a thoughtful comment can often alter a situation, or people’s perceptions of it, in ways that relieve tensions and make them feel appreciated and included.
Almost everything we can observe and measure follows what’s known as a normal distribution, or a Bell curve. There’s a profound reason why.
NASA has finally chosen which flagship mission, like Hubble and JWST, will launch in ~2040. Detecting alien life is now a reachable goal.