- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really special' to that sack of water and protein that is a body, and you can get it to do practically anything.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many philosophers say it's impossible to explain our conscious experience in scientific, biological terms at all. But that's not exactly true. Scientists have explained why we have certain experiences and not others. It's just that they haven't explained the special features of consciousness that philosophers care about.
- High School Students
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- Nov 07, 2020
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020
Overall, female scientists have fewer resources than male scientists, just as poor people have less access to health care. But if you compare male and female scientists with identical resources, you find that the women are just as likely to be successful.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've had three of my own children and spent my professional life thinking about children. And yet I still find my relation to my children deeply puzzling.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Historically, absolute IQ scores have risen substantially as we've changed our environment so that more people go to school longer.
- Brain
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone, either.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020