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Brain Changes
Culture | Cognitive Science
Martin Luther Rewired Your Brain
How mass literacy, spurred by Protestantism, reconfigured our neural pathways.
Biology | Health
Why Making Our Brains Noisier Feels Good
A counterintuitive approach to improving our mental health.
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Biology
The Alien-Haunted World
Did you know that there are many scientists who devote their working lives to skillfully charting out the most unassuming chunks of our solar system—chunks that none of our species will…
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Ideas
A Simple Way to Reduce Cognitive Bias
Would you like to be more rational? Of course you would. Who doesn’t want to behave and think more reasonably? Good news: New research, from Harvard psychologist Ellen Langer, suggests…
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How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.What lies beyond all we can see? The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response:…
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Culture
Can You Treat Loneliness By Creating an Imaginary Friend?
Did you ever have an imaginary friend? If you didn’t, chances are you know someone who did. Imaginary companions, as scholars call them, are quite common, and aren’t strictly associated…
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