- Evolution
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
The state-of-the-art techniques really allowed us to make maps of how Sting's brain organizes music. That's important because at the heart of great musicianship is the ability to manipulate in one's mind rich representation of the desired soundscape.
- Coffee
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee.
- Bad
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think we should have less information in the world. The information age has yielded great advances in medicine, agriculture, transportation and many other fields. But the problem is twofold. One, we are assaulted with more information than any one of us can handle. Two, beyond the overload, too much information often leads to bad decisions.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people say some of their best ideas come from dreams. Arguably the greatest Beatles song, 'Yesterday,' came to Paul McCartney in a dream.
- Mathematics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Use the environment to remind you of what needs to be done. If you're afraid you'll forget to buy milk on the way home, put an empty milk carton on the seat next to you in the car or in the backpack you carry to work on the subway.
- Detail
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it.
- Fake News
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- Nov 07, 2020
The phrase 'fake news' sounds too playful, too much like a schoolchild faking illness to get out of a test.
- Lie
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are not two sides to a story when one side is a lie. Journalists - and the rest of us - must stop giving equal time to things that don't have an opposing side.
- Opinion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Two sides to a story exist when evidence exists on both sides of a position. Then, reasonable people may disagree about how to weigh that evidence and what conclusion to form from it. Everyone, of course, is entitled to their own opinion.
- Contradiction
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis.
- Lose
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- Nov 07, 2020