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Mind & Meaning
The psychology of ambition, isolation, and meaning under extremes — and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Quote by George Carlin: "Don't just teach your children to read. Teach them to question what they read. Teach them to question everything."
Scientists identify a cell type in the brain that was previously ignored and it may explain why human memory has no known upper limit
A study of adults aged 62 to 92 found that basic motor control — drawing lines, placing dots — remains almost identical between people with and without cognitive impairment, meaning the hands stay capable long after the processes that organise thought have started to change
The IKEA effect in the age of AI
The Great Wall of China is not actually visible from space with the naked eye — astronauts from Apollo to the ISS have confirmed it — and the popular myth that it is predates space travel itself, with the best-known version coming from a 1932 Ripley's Believe It or Not cartoon
I've been studying emotion regulation for 6 years, and I think the most practical skill you can learn is to notice your nervous system before your mind starts writing tragic fiction.
The more I work with AI, the less interested I am in whether it's conscious and the more interested I am in what happens to human consciousness around it
Thought of the day from French philosopher Blaise Pascal: "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room"
Neuroscientists found a region of the brain specialized for recognising faces that activates in as little as 50 milliseconds and it develops even in people who have been blind since birth
The case for jotting down a few things we are grateful for
