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We have brains because they optimize our bodies’ survival. Meanwhile, the body itself is the border in the translation service that will allow the outside world to come into the […]
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An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more survivable by taking care of a danger or taking […]
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While our own personal histories happen one event at a time, our brains make sense of our lives by stringing these events together in an structured way.
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The mind allows us to understand what the world is like, but it is consciousness that gives us the subjective vantage to say “I am here, I exist, I have […]
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A conversation with the behavioral neurobiologist.
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Instead of recording every event in your life, the brain records conjunctions of the occurrence of certain events. Out of the conjunction, it can then replay and reconstruct.
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Parents need to wean themselves off of the idea that they must be constantly available to their child and vice versa.
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Author Lenore Skenazy is tired of helicopter parents messing up their kids.
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At some point in the past thirty years it became taboo to let your kids play outside without supervision. What’s with that?
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Lenore Skenazy, who advocates for the free-range kids style of parenting, helps you learn to stop over-obsessing about your children.
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Things have improved tremendously for LGBT youth since Testone was young, but there are still plenty of kids without supportive families who come to New York and end up homeless.
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At first,Testone feared coming out to her friends would shatter the narrative she had created in high school. Looking back, she calls that fear internalized homophobia.
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Despite working for a gay organization, Testone thought she was completely straight—until one special night at a lesbian bar in Dallas.
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A conversation with the director of the LGBT Center in New York.
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Primaries were conceived to keep power out of the hands of political party bosses, but now they contribute to our country’s hyper-polarization and should be abolished.
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Social media sites have fundamentally changed how people communicate, but when it comes to really groundbreaking ways of reaching people “social has so many more legs still to go. We […]
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The fact that social media has become more of a mainstream activity means that businesses need to take it seriously. The days when you could ignore it are long gone.
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A conversation with the founder of the Altimeter Group.
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There are some very interesting things coming out of the Nordic countries that could challenge the culinary hegemony of Spain and France.
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There’s something amiss if restaurants have to announce that they use good quality ingredients; that should be a given, says Dufresne.
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Foam has risen to prominence among a certain generation of chefs—but its detractors call it pretentious or just plain weird.
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Humans have never invested very much in the public health and safety issues of their societies. Meanwhile ants, over the course of millions of years, have put a lot of […]
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Dufresne has two common approaches to dishes: familiar things in unfamiliar presentations and unfamiliar things in familiar presentations.
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There may be more similarities between ants colonies and human societies than there are between ants and primates. That’s is because ants, like humans, can have societies in the millions.
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Wasn’t the first guy who ever held meat over a fire experimenting with his food? That turned out all right.
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The common belief that searing a steak will “lock in the juices” has been debunked by food scientists, yet some chefs persist in this practice.
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Because of molecular gastronomists, we have learned more about making food in the past 15 years than we had in the previous 15,000.
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With many of the foods considered by society to be “tasteful,” like caviar, we have to develop an appreciation for them. Does that mean they taste “better” than something inherently […]
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Creating a sense of immediate need is incredibly important in galvanizing people to initiate big changes.
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