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Thinking, Fast and Slow: A New Way to Think About Thinking
Beneath the biases of intuition, or how your experiencing self and your remembering self shape your life.
Legendary Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. A Nobel laureate and founding father … Continue reading
Thinking, Fast and Slow: A New Way to Think About Thinking
Beneath the biases of intuition, or how your experiencing self and your remembering self shape your life.
Legendary Israeli-American psychologist Daniel Kahneman is one of the most influential thinkers of our time. A Nobel laureate and founding father … Continue reading
7 Must-Read Books on Time
What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.
Time is the most fundamental common denominator between our existence and that of everything else, it’s the yardstick by which we measure nearly … Continue reading
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Why Intuition Makes People More Likely to Believe in God [Psychology]
The nature of faith is often a thorny topic for psychology and other sciences to grapple with, but a new study indicates a powerful link between how we think and what we believe. It all goes back to intuition.
Harvard researchers have found that peopl… Continue reading
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What Lucky People Do Differently than Unlucky People [Psychology]
What makes a person lucky? Often it’s less about actual luck than it is about a person’s general outlook. Here’s why. More »
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We can reverse the aging process in bees’ brains. Could humans be next? [Neuroscience]
Bees can become mentally young again with just a few simple alterations to their otherwise fixed routines. Because the brains of bees are surprisingly like our own, this trick could help fight dementia and keep human minds young and flexible.
Norwegia… Continue reading
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Science reveals the shocking, mind-warping reason why people grunt during sex [Sexy Science]
Scientists must never be afraid to ask any question and to seek any truth, no matter how silly it might seem. Case in point: a 2003 paper from the journal Mad Med Hypotheses, in which four brave souls from the Medical School in Hanover, Germany ponder … Continue reading
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PICKED: The Belief Instinct, The Science of Spirituality
We’re deeply fascinated by how the human mind makes sense of the world, and religion is one of the primary sensemaking mechanisms humanity has created to explain reality. On the heels of our recent explorations of the relationship between science and… Continue reading
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How to Recognize Signs of Burnout (and What to Do About Them) [Health]
We all feel burnt out from work now and again, but it’s not always easy to recognize and easier to place blame elsewhere. Here are some burnout signs to look for and what you can do if you fit the bil… Continue reading
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It’s been proven: You’re either a hypocrite or delusional [Madscience]
I love it when science explains why human beings are awful. A recent set of experiments proves the punishment you dole out to people is always worse than what they did to you.
Strange chart by Michael Lewy.
Apparently there is a game out there called … Continue reading
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2010?s Best Long Reads: Science & Technology
Longreads and Brain Pickings have teamed up to highlight the most fascinating in-depth stories published on the web this year. Earlier, we featured the best of Business and Art, Design, Film & Music. Our final spotlight shines on Science, Medicine … Continue reading
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The Last Psychiatrist
A blog about piracy, mercantilism and fourth generation warfare. Continue reading
Use Benford’s Law to Catch (or Pull Off) Fake Numbers [Numbers]
How can accountants, election inspectors, and academic reviewers know at a glance that your numbers are bunk? They use Benford’s Law, which suggests number distribution is less random than expected. Ro… Continue reading
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Airplane food tastes bad because your brain can’t handle the noise [Mad Science]
For as long as there have been hack comedians, humanity has pondered the question: “What’s the deal with airline food?” Well, science has figured it out: airplanes are just too damn loud for food to taste good.Generally speaking, it’s not just that air… Continue reading
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The Importance Of Being Idle
Does daydreaming have a purpose? Neuroscientists have recently become enraptured with the workings of the brain at idle moments. Referred to as “default mode network,” letting the mind wander is in fact a busy, critical state that is the key to mai… Continue reading