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Umwelt: The hidden sensory world of animals
Catfish taste with their whole bodies - and that’s just one way animals sense the world totally differently than us.
Ed Yong
truth bias
2mins
Great Question
Strengthen your internal lie detector
How to see through the lies that surround us.
Amishi Jha
5mins
The Big Think Interview
Take ultimate control of your attention span
Where do you place precious brain resources?
Amishi Jha
Illustration of a human brain with a metallic on/off switch embedded in its side, set against a solid dark purple background.
8mins
The Well
How to turn information into intelligence
Having trouble learning? A PhD engineering professor gives you one key tip.
Barbara Oakley
John Templeton Foundation
A person stands in front of a large face, peering into an oversized monocle held by a giant hand, as if searching for traces of free will within the magnified gaze.
5mins
The Well
Is free will an illusion?
Philosophers have been making the claim that free will is an illusion for hundreds of years. Dr. Uri Maoz shares what modern neuroscience has to say about it.
Dr. Uri Maoz
John Templeton Foundation
encoding memory
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Our best guesses at the mystery of memory
Humanity's most advanced tech still hasn’t unraveled the mysteries of the human mind. Can brain scans show us how we store memories?
Lisa Genova
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