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Sensorium
Biology | Neuroscience
The Neurology of Flow States
Why time vanishes when you’re jamming.
Biology | Neuroscience
Our Mind-Boggling Sense of Smell
How your brain identifies an aroma from its minute molecular traces is a marvel.
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Matter
The App That Offers Cosmic Awe
One of the weirdest things about our human experience of the world is how remarkably narrow it can be. We’re equipped with some extraordinary senses for sure. Our visual system can discriminate…
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Biology
Memories Can Be Injected and Survive Amputation and Metamorphosis
The study of memory has always been one of the stranger outposts of science. In the 1950s, an unknown psychology professor at the University of Michigan named James McConnell made headlines—and…
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Culture
The Psychic Toll of Severing the Hunter-Prey Relationship
A productive hunt is a violent act—success requiring as it does the dismemberment of a living creature. Yet, to focus alone on the concluding moment, the bloody brutality of the killing…
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Ideas
Do We Have Free Will? Maybe It Doesn't Matter
Belief is a special kind of human power. Agustin Fuentes, an anthropologist at the University of Notre Dame, eloquently claims as much in his recent book Why We Believe: Evolution and the…
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