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Mind and Behavior
Disconnection is not a personal failure, but a systems challenge — and an opportunity for employers to strengthen our social fabric.
Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you're unable to grow.
Today, nostalgia is somewhat kitsch. Back then, it was something to be feared.
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"It's this modern idea of doing voluntary discretionary, physical activity for the sake of health and fitness."
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Tara Narula shares how journalist Richard Cohen challenged conventional ideas about illness, identity, and strength while living with MS.
Three virtues every good leader must develop.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
The case for why AI systems are not merely "stochastic parrots."
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We tend to trust our intuitions about consciousness because they feel immediate and personal, but feeling convinced is not the same as being right. Annaka Harris explores what happens when […]
Author Zack Kass argues that AI will not end work — it will expand it, pushing us toward new ways of creating, connecting, and adding value.
AI can now generate entire worlds from text prompts. What does this mean for how we think, create, and connect?
Our algorithmic age encourages us to over-index on probabilities — but we should instead exercise our “storythinking brain” and focus on possibilities.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
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Stoicism has been flattened into slogans about toughness, detachment, and emotional silence, a version that’s easy to sell, but mostly wrong. Massimo Pigliucci returns Stoicism to its original purpose: a […]
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"I continue to believe that in the long run, boys, young men will believe their eyes more than their ears."
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Travel half the distance to your destination, and there's always another half to go. So how do you eventually arrive? That's Zeno's Paradox.
A practical blueprint for developing leaders through systems, not sessions.
Psychologist Chris Moore reveals why guilt and anxiety lead us to the compassion necessary to earn forgiveness.
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"It's much better to try to understand how the world works and then act accordingly. Rather than trying to impose on the world the way we want to think or the way we preferred things to be."
In general relativity, matter and energy curve spacetime, which we experience as gravity. Why can't there be an "antigravity" force?
We think of physical reality as what objectively exists, independent of any observer. But relativity and quantum physics say otherwise.
While ice itself is slick, slippery, and difficult to navigate across under most circumstances, skaters easily glide across the ice.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
Bryan Washington, author of “Palaver,” reflects on how moving to Japan and learning a new language shaped his writing.
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"Being connected to another person makes us feel safer and keeps our bodies at a kind of physiologic equilibrium that promotes health."