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Your own body in some sense is also a time machine because time does not beat at the same rate inside your body which is now a measurable affect.
Business at it’s best it can be an engine of the kind of change that we all want to help us live better lives.
It’s not enough just to understand finance, you have to understand what the human rights community thinks.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
We really can make a masterpiece out of our own lives if we so choose.
Sleep disorder specialists are calling attention to a new trend that, while less dangerous than sleep-driving, still represents a potential health concern.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
The marriage of art and science is so crucially important because it extends who and what we are.
I decided that I would attempt to scientifically figure out where on the phylogenetic tree, which is the master map of all the species on earth, where you might put God.
We all every now and then have that guilty pleasure of thinking like a child.
A good half the time, I’m doing what I want to do, which is very rewarding. It’s like play.
Mood has long been known to affect health, with those living in consistently happier states enjoying a lower risk of disease.
Is willpower something that we’re born with and live with our entire lives?
If you don’t have enough people with an urgent frame of mind, it’s like putting up a tall building and you don’t put in the pilings deep enough.
A pair of MIT doctoral candidates came up with a way to reduce excessive Internet usage by creating a keyboard accessory called, unsurprisingly, “Pavlov Poke.”
I don’t read leadership books anymore.
Decision Academy, brought to you by ClearerThinking.org in association with Big Think Mentor uses insights from cognitive science to help people recognize their own blind spots and make better decisions.
Because research has found that a person’s willpower is a limited resource, it was believed that eating sugary foods could replenish the will’s strength.
People with power interrupt. People without power get interrupted.
Some people classified as obese by the Body Mass Index may outlive those with normal weight, suggesting that while the BMI is pretty good, it is not perfect.
Researchers discovered that people are hard-wired to see no-longer-intact items — a torn piece of paper, for example — as trash and treat it accordingly.
The amounts of copper readily found in the water we drink, food we eat, and vitamins we take, likely play a key role in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
“It’s as if someone were out there making up pointless jobs just for the sake of keeping us all working.”
A genetic test to be marketed directly to consumers will test an individual’s genetic make up to determine how he or she will react to prescription drugs.
The ethics of “first contact” was the subject of a panel discussion at last week’s Starship Congress, where attendees hashed out the logistics and consequences of becoming an interstellar civilization.
When we think of “hacking” the human body, most of us probably think of something along the lines of Tim Ferriss and his concept of the 4-Hour Body — little […]
A new paper in the Journal of Neuroscience claims that the relatively simple optical illusion pictured here can reflect brain alpha waves.