Pew Research Fact Tank
The state of the U.S. Postal Service in 8 charts
6 min read · From 2020 · The last year the Postal Service recorded any profit was 2006, and its cumulative losses since then totaled $83.1 billion as of March 31.
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Harvard Business Review
That Discomfort You’re Feeling Is Grief
6 min read · From 2020 · The coronavirus pandemic has led to a collective loss of normalcy.
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Quartz
How the human brain stays young even as we age
6 min read · From 2019 · Understanding how most brains maintain youthful plasticity could lead scientists to figure out why some don't.
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Fast Company
How you can train your brain to pick up (and maintain) new habits
1 min read · From 2019 · Your brain has everything to do with how you act.
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The Gradient
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
~11 min read · From 2019 · Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided.—…
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Quanta Magazine
The Architect of Modern Algorithms
9 min read · From 2019 · Barbara Liskov pioneered the modern approach to writing code. She warns that the challenges facing computer science today can’t be overcome with good design alone.
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Neuroscience News
Your brain on sugar: What the science actually says
4 min read · From 2019 · From reducing memory capability to increasing the risk of diabetes and obesity, researchers investigate how sugar affects the brain and body.
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The Economist
How what’s in our heads changes what’s in the world
8 min read · From 2019 · Better “mental models” are vital to improve society, says Shane Parrish
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Guardian Tech
History as a giant data set: how analysing the past could help save the future
~20 min read · From 2019 · The long read: Calculating the patterns and cycles of the past could lead us to an objective version of history. Could it also help us prevent a looming crisis?
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Farnam Street
Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World
8 min read · From 2019 · The less rigid we are in our thinking, the more open minded, creative and innovative we become. Here’s how to develop the power of an elastic mind.
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The Atlantic
Why It Feels Like Everything Is Going Haywire
~11 min read · From 2019 · Social media rapidly changed how we communicate, in ways that destabilize democracy. What can we do about that?
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medium.com
Psychologists Explain How To Stop Overthinking Everything
8 min read · From 2019 · Overthinking can lead to serious emotional distress and increase your risk of mental health problems
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