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1 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
Sorry, education reformers, it’s still memorization and repetition we need.
BY Barbara Oakley -
2 How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
BY Eric Schwitzgebel -
3 A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
BY Susie Neilson -
4 Hallucinogen Therapy Is Coming
How shrooms can spring people from fears and destructive habits.
BY Moises Velasquez-Manoff -
5 Is Artificial Intelligence Permanently Inscrutable?
Despite new biology-like tools, some insist interpretation is impossible.
BY Aaron M. Bornstein -
6 Why Neuroscientists Need to Study the Crow
The neocortex is argued to be the seat of cognition, but crows don't have one.
BY Grigori Guitchounts
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1 How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
The building blocks of understanding are memorization and repetition.
BY Barbara Oakley -
2 How to Tell If You’re a Jerk
If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.
BY Eric Schwitzgebel -
3 A Mental Disease by Any Other Name
For Frank Russell, reinterpreting his schizophrenia as shamanism helped his symptoms.
BY Susie Neilson -
4 Hallucinogen Therapy Is Coming
How shrooms can spring people from fears and destructive habits.
BY Moises Velasquez-Manoff -
5 For Kids, Learning Is Moving
Children’s brain development is fueled when they find their own way.
BY M.R. O’Connor -
6 Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths
Teaching cursive handwriting doesn’t have nearly the value we think it does.
BY Philip Ball
Facts So Romantic
Science has a powerful voice in today’s culture.
So what is it saying?
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Biology
Can Dogs Help Us Understand the Link Between Intelligence and Health?
If you’re a dog lover, you may have heard of Chaser, the border collie who has been called a “genius” and the “smartest dog in the world.” Retired psychology professor John Pilley,…
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Matter
Lawrence Krauss Versus Freeman Dyson on Gravitons
Yesterday, in the New York Review of Books, Freeman Dyson analyzed a trio of recent books on humanity’s future in the larger cosmos. They were How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Renegades,…
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Culture
Why Are People Losing the Blissful Tingles of ASMR?
In more ways than one, the tingles seem to be fading. Just a few years ago, autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR), a puzzling and blissful sensation, became the sudden focal point…
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Ideas
The Problem With Science Writing
Want to hear a seamy insider secret from the science communication industry? The border between journalism and public relations has more turnstiles than Grand Central. Professionals move…
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Spark of Science
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