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Mind and Behavior
A technique called targeted memory reactivation could improve common treatments for nightmare disorder.
5mins
Psychedelic medicines are surging in popularity. Here’s how they work.
Fear creates distraction, and that can be a positive experience.
This opens the door to manipulating networks of specific neurons.
Meditators invert the relationship between the layers of self-processing.
Nothing meaningful is done quickly.
Inside the metaverse, your emotions and physical responses will be monitored, and AI will use that data to influence you in real time. Is that essentially mind control?
When other treatments fail, this radical surgery could help.
‘Flow state’ is a peak performance mental state experienced by the world's highest achievers. Learn how it works in just 7 minutes.
John Templeton Foundation
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There are 38 kinds of secrets. The average person has 13 at any given moment. Michael Slepian explains how that can affect your health.
Like his "Mona Lisa," Leonardo da Vinci's "Lady with an Ermine" depicts a woman in a way that flouted the conventions of its time.
Forget about Tinkerbell.
Something doesn't add up.
The media is deliberately pushing your buttons.
4mins
“Conflict is useful. The question is how do you deal with conflict effectively.”
More than half of Americans feel anxious over their financial situation.
Million Stories
How many tins of beans make a stockpile, and when does a basement become a bunker?
9mins
You can’t predict success. But according to minds like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michio Kaku & more, you can hot wire it.
Today’s careers don’t offer a clear path forward, but the rewards can be worth more than a gold watch at retirement.
The researchers suggest that their results demonstrate intelligence in silico.
We are not yet at the point where quantum communications can be deployed to secure the internet, but we might not be far off.
If you believe that you're perfect, then somebody else must be responsible for your failures.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
After 70 years, "The Power of Positive Thinking" remains incredibly popular, even though its critics find the book to be mostly fluff.
5mins
Don’t take the prodigy pathway. Become a broad thinker instead.
Cooperation was the first technology.
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The next time you see your dog sniffing the pavement or another dog’s junk, you should let them. Here’s why.
"Ghost gear" leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.
What if your best friend was an informant?