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How to Remember More of What You Read
6 min read · From 2020 · And why your brain makes it so easy to forget
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MIT Technology Review
A new implant for blind people jacks directly into the brain
8 min read · From 2020 · Researchers have successfully bypassed the eyes with a brain implant that allows rudimentary vision.
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Neuroscience News
How serotonin balances communication within the brain
4 min read · From 2020 · Study reveals how serotonin plays a key role in the scaling of current sensory input and outgoing brain signals.
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WIRED
Scientists Now Know How Sleep Cleans Toxins From the Brain
4 min read · From 2019 · The synchronized brain waves of non-REM sleep may play a key role in preventing toxins from accumulating in a person's brain.
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The Guardian
Are brain implants the future of thinking?
~11 min read · From 2019 · Brain-computer interface technology is moving fast and Silicon Valley is moving in. Will we all soon be typing with our minds?
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The New York Times
Why Sitting May Be Bad for Your Brain
4 min read · From 2018 · Taking a walk every 30 minutes can restore blood flow to the brain when you’re sitting for hours.
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Nautilus Magazine
This Is Your Brain on Silence
10 min read · From 2019 · One icy night in March 2010, 100 marketing experts piled into the Sea Horse Restaurant in Helsinki, with the modest goal of making…
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Aeon+Psyche
Playing chess is an essential life lesson in concentration
~11 min read · From 2020 · The challenge of chess – learning how to hold complexity in mind and still make good decisions – is also the challenge of life
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The New Yorker
The Myth and Magic of Generating New Ideas
9 min read · From 2019 · A mathematician on how to get the mind into motion.
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Tim Urban
The Thinking Ladder
From 2019 · How do you form your beliefs?
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Nautilus Magazine
How I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math
~12 min read · From 2019 · I was a wayward kid who grew up on the literary side of life, treating math and science as if they were pustules from the plague.…
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nature
Don’t ask if artificial intelligence is good or fair, ask how it shifts power
3 min read · From 2020 · Those who could be exploited by AI should be shaping its projects.
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Brain Pickings
Bruce Lee’s Never-Before-Seen Writings on Willpower, Emotion, Reason, Memory, Imagination, and Confidence
6 min read · From 2016 · “You will never get any more out of life than you expect.”
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The Guardian
The 100-year life: how to prolong a healthy mind
7 min read · From 2020 · As concerns about dementia grow, more research is investigating how we can keep our brains fit and sharp
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Literary Hub
How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains
~12 min read · From 2020 · Imagine arriving at the airport just in time to catch a plane. Everything in your behavior betrays the heightened concentration of your attention. Your mind on alert, you look for the departures si…
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The Atlantic
A Famous Argument Against Free Will Has Been Debunked
9 min read · From 2019 · For decades, a landmark brain study fed speculation about whether we control our own actions. It seems to have made a classic mistake.
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