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How Your Brain Constructs—And Sometimes Distorts—Your Experience of the World
You probably think you’re listening to my voice right now. But what if I told you that you’re actually experiencing a sophisticated hallucination? Perception isn’t the passive process that most of us imagine it to
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Cash Rewards Have Less Sway in Collectivistic Cultures
If you’re trying to get someone to do something, what’s the best way to achieve that? Paying them probably comes to mind, and this intuition is a basic tenet of economic theory. In a massive
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Scientists Use A.I. to Mimic the Mind, Warts and All
Companies like OpenAI and Meta are in a race to make something they like to call artificial general intelligence. But for all the money being spent on it, A.G.I. has no settled definition. It’s more of
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Why Singing Is Good For Your Brain
If there is a song in your soul, sing it out loud — whether in your car on your morning commute or at karaoke with friends. It’s okay if you are not the next Beyoncé.
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Longevity Hacks for Busy People
The fundamentals of healthy aging are no big secret: Regular exercise, eating well, quality sleep and a robust social life can all help you live better for longer. But doing these things takes time — and when
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The Simple Trick to Change Other People’s Minds
“The growth of knowledge depends entirely upon disagreement,” claimed the philosopher Karl Popper. He was writing about the dangers of dogma in science – but his words could equally apply to anyone’s worldview. And if you
