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Behavior Change
7 min
Daily habits can help you thrive or quietly turn into addictions. The difference is how your brain handles cues, routines, and rewards. Three experts explain how to work with your wiring instead of against it.
Unlikely Collaborators
Strengthen your focus like a muscle.
1 min
“Nothing about human behavior makes sense except in the light of culture and in anthropology, and we need to understand the cultural component to our behaviors as well.”
A conversation about intelligence and consciousness with philosopher Peter Godfrey-Smith.
7 min
“Because of the efficiency worship that we have developed in our industrial age, we are now seeing procrastination as a character flaw rather than what it is, a signal that is worth listening to.”
Why some of philosophy’s strangest scenarios are more than mental games.
8 min
From trepanning to lobotomies, humans have long struggled to manage emotion. Today, we have better tools. Psychologist Ethan Kross shares what actually works, and why.
1 min
“The public really doesn't realize that they are much closer to CIA spies than they think they are.”