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When we read a story, our brains plot everything that’s going on, from the character’s…
I, for one, welcome my Neandertal ancestry.
It may not sound like a lot — between 1 and 4 percent. But that’s the equivalent of one great-great-great grandparent’s DNA contribution. In the case of the Neandertal contribution, more than 1500 generations…
The title’s only a little bit of an exaggeration. According to research by Mark Changizi, summarized in a great interview on Neuronarrative, what we see is our brain’s approximation of the world in a tenth of a second, not the world at the instant that we see.
When my great-great-great grandfather William Candlish was born in Virginia in 1804, there were 1 billion people in the world.
It had taken thousands of years for the world to reach that milestone of human saturation.
The things I couldn’t learn in school: chemistry, physics, other languages. These have become the things that are at the core of…
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Be confident in seeing what is in front of you.
From Scientific American, a rebuttal to the phenomenon of positive psychology, summed up in the equation: H = S + C + V (Happiness = your Set range + the Circumstances of your life + the factors under your Voluntary control)
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A theory that emotion is one of the earliest attributes that evolved in the genome. Emotion is, in fact, a rudimentary system that we have to adapt to the more complex systems, such as culture and civilization, that have evolved to help assure the best possible behaviors for the propagation of the species.
