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Your energy doesn’t work like a battery — and treating it that way may be why you still feel tired even after a break.
Your sense of self isn’t located in a single part of the brain — it emerges from a complex interplay of cognitive processes that change over time.
Howard Gardner joins us to reflect on the theory of multiple intelligences and why the question of who owns intelligence is more important than ever.
Neuroscientist Christof Koch on why reflective self-consciousness separates us from intelligent machines.
By better understanding how the brain constructs pain, we may transform how we treat chronic suffering.
In this preview, the Stanford professor muses on how emergence, arriving at complex patterns from simple parts, explains AI, brains, and life itself.
A new framework suggests that bursts of neural chaos could be the fingerprints of a conscious mind at work.
When people born blind gain sight, the hardest part isn’t opening their eyes — it’s teaching the brain how to see.
The “dystopian” biotech imagined in these novels is now changing real lives for the better.
Technology, shifting rules, and human ambition push athletes beyond biology’s perceived limits.
Books don’t just stimulate the mind — they trigger physiological changes throughout the body.
Sixty years ago, a little-known philosopher challenged how science understands life. His perspective is finding new relevance in the age of artificial intelligence.
By treating the human body as an information system, scientists are using AI to simulate cells, visualize hidden biology, and detect disease at its earliest — and most preventable — stages.
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Moltbook is a social media site built for conversation — but not for humans.
Many top performers start behind — and overtake the early leaders later.
Elite athletes train their “quiet eye.” What happens if the rest of us do the same?
The Stoic philosopher argued that most of life is outside our control — but the little we do control defines who we are.
Researchers built a model that behaves like a brain. Without being trained on neural data, the model produced a peculiar signal — one that was later discovered in actual brain activity.
These cultural lies make normal struggle feel like failure. A habit of experimentation makes it feel like progress.
Health policy expert Ezekiel Emanuel says you don’t have to be obsessed to live a healthy life. Wellness can, and should, be something you enjoy.
Emily Mendenhall traces the medical myths, gender bias, and neurological truths behind hysteria, one of history’s most damaging diagnoses.
Neuroscience isn’t dissolving philosophy’s hardest problems — it’s forcing us to rethink where they live.
By tracking brain activity as primates move freely in the wild, neuroethology could reshape what we think we know about our own minds.
Big Think and the John Templeton Foundation gathered scientists, artists, and storytellers in Los Angeles to explore the power of awe.
Rituals serve psychological functions that go far beyond mere habit or tradition.
As we crank up our search for more powerful AI, maybe we should slow down and reimagine the shape and language of intelligence itself.
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In this excerpt from "Playful," Cas Holman surveys the research that brought the neuroscience of play into the mainstream.