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The conversation you're having with an LLM about groundbreaking new ideas in theoretical physics is completely meritless. Here's why.
The psychologist, educator, and former NBA player discusses the professional volumes and childhood stories that shaped his life and his approach to it.
You might love your leadership role and inspire fierce loyalty — but what if that comes at the expense of a disastrous balance sheet? Here’s a way forward.
Somewhere, at some point in the history of our Universe, life arose. We're evidence of that here on Earth, but many big puzzles remain.
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Your brain changes when you experience something, and it changes again when you remember it. Two neuroscientists explain what that means for memory, perception, and identity.
Unlikely Collaborators
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Three doctors break down brain function, somatic awareness, and how to recover from bad experiences.
Unlikely Collaborators
The host of the Money with Katie Show has some priceless advice for women on how to approach pay-rise negotiations.
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What if emotional regulation isn’t just a trait, but a skill parents and teachers can help develop? Ethan Kross reveals what science says about shaping young minds.
Even just by examining the Moon with the unaided eye, we can learn an incredible amount about the Moon, Earth, and more.
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“We can make ourselves more likely to be happy by building a life that includes the conditions that make for happiness.”
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here's how that's possible.
Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
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"The sense that we are a solid entity, an unchanging entity that exists someplace in our body and takes ownership of our body, and even ownership of our brain rather than being identical to our brain, that is where the illusion lies."
Realizing that matter and energy are quantized is important, but quantum particles aren't the full story; quantum fields are needed, too.
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“The simplest, most powerful way to reinforce work, not jobs, is to ask people to do something different.”
With the right material at the right temperature and a magnetic track, physics really does allow perpetual motion without energy loss.
Stuck on a hamster wheel of mindless social media scrolling? Neuroscientist Anne-Laure Le Cunff explains how to consciously redirect your reward system.