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Posts from September 2012

  • Why Misinformation Sticks and Corrections Can Backfire — September 27
  • A Conversation with Innovation Guru Clayton Christensen — September 27
  • When You Can't Sleep, How Good Is Lying in Bed With Your Eyes Closed? — September 27
  • Why Solving Puzzles Is Fun: Q&A with Consciousness Researcher Daniel Bor — September 27
  • “I’m Bored!” – Research on Attention Sheds Light on the Unengaged Mind — September 27
  • Cool infographics for all six episodes of the Star Wars saga, — September 27
  • Why your memory is like the telephone game — September 26
  • An Introduction to Creativity — September 25
  • 15 Incredible Ways Music Affects Your Brain — September 25
  • Rethinking Sleep — September 25
  • To Succeed, Forget Self-Esteem — September 24
  • A Counter-Intuitive Remedy to Feeling Short of Time — September 24
  • Famous Robots — September 24
  • Why Movie Sequels and Remakes Almost Always Fail — September 24
  • How to Taste Coffee — September 24
  • Positive Thinking vs. Positive Psychology — September 23
  • Stretching yourself to learn new things — September 23
  • Comments are the radioactive waste of the Web — September 22
  • The 2012 Ig Nobel Prize Winners — September 22
  • Procrastination Inception: The Science of Procrastination - And How To Manage It — September 21
  • Retrain Your Brain to Reduce Worry — September 21
  • Labeling Negative Emotions In The Moment Can Help You Overcome Them — September 21
  • Orée Board Maple — September 21
  • Postcards From Google Earth — September 21
  • Deep Space : 2012 winners : Astronomy Photographer of the Year… — September 21
  • The Neuroscience of Belonging — September 20
  • Theory: Music Underlies Language Acquisition — September 20
  • Ego Depletion, Motivation and Attention: A New Model of Self-Control — September 19
  • The 20 Most Significant Inventions in the History of Food and Drink — September 18
  • Scientists cast doubt on Heisenberg's uncertainty principle — September 18
  • What the brain draws from: Art and neuroscience — September 18
  • Neverending stories — September 18
  • Bach on record: Play it again — September 18
  • A Solar Filament Erupts — September 17
  • Here It Is: The Best Word Ever — September 16
  • Get fit faster: listen to music! — September 16
  • This Is Your Brain on the Internet (Maybe) — September 16
  • Rejuvenate Your Brain While You Work: 10 Ways — September 13
  • 3 Myths About Creativity That Just Won’t Quit — September 13
  • Best Foods for Your Brain — September 13
  • The Creativity of the Wandering Mind — September 13
  • 5 Reasons Video Games Are Actually Good for You — September 13
  • "Video Game" is a Bad Name for the Medium (Also Inside: RPGs) — September 10
  • What Work Is Really For — September 10
  • This is your brain on Jane Austen, and researchers at Stanford are taking notes — September 9
  • 9 Ways Neuroscience Has Changed The Classroom — September 9
  • Politics & Alternative Reality Fiction — September 9
  • The science of conducting: Von Karajan was right — September 9
  • Taste buds and 'tude: The food and mood link — September 9
  • On Reading and Books — September 9
  • Why does coffee never taste as good as it smells? — September 9
  • Employee Brain on Stress Can Quash Creativity And Competitive Edge — September 7
  • The Great Ideas of the Social Sciences — September 7
  • The best interface is no interface — September 7
  • The Thing You Think You Cannot Do: Thirty Truths About Fear and Courage — September 7
  • How well can we know ourselves? — September 7
  • The Role of "Ripeness" in Creativity and Discovery: Arthur Koestler's Seminal Insights, 1964 — September 7
  • Philosophy and The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy edited by Nicholas Joll – review — September 6
  • Four Geeky Laws That Rule Our World — September 6
  • 10 Essential Italian Films — September 6
  • The Science of "Chunking," Working Memory, and How Pattern Recognition Fuels Creativity — September 6
  • 'This Will End In Tears': Soundtracks For Down Days — September 6
  • Philosopher Muses on “The Art of Procrastination” — September 6
  • What’s the matter with analytic philosophy? — September 6
  • The mystery of the stopped clock illusion — September 6
  • Making Choices: How Your Brain Decides — September 6
  • Experts in Programming Share Their Knowledge with "The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got" Series — September 6
  • Dante’s 9 Circles of Hell in LEGO Form — September 5
  • Book Notes - Charles Yu "Sorry Please Thank You" — September 5
  • This Is Your Brain On Management — September 5
  • Does Contemporary Neuroscience Support or Challenge the Reality of Free Will? — September 4
  • McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: The Ultimate Guide to Writing Better Than You Normally Do. — September 4
  • How to Read Like a Writer — September 4
  • The Slowest Reader — September 4
  • What Kind of Book Reader Are You? A Diagnostics Guide — September 4
  • A Point of View: Are tyrants good for art? — September 3
  • Why we Troll — September 3
  • The neuroscience of winning explained — September 3
  • Awesomely blemished inverted solar beauty — September 3
  • Working From Home? You're a Better Worker — September 3
  • Redefining the Introduction to Computer Science — September 3
  • "Economics in Denial" — September 3
  • What books can teach you to be the best? — September 2
  • What does it take to become an expert at anything? — September 2
  • 37signals Earns Millions Each Year. Its CEO’s Model? His Cleaning Lady — September 2
  • How Consciousness Evolved and Why a Planetary "Übermind" Is Inevitable — September 2
  • Puppet experiment suggests humans are born to be fair — September 2
  • The Terrors & Occasional Virtues of Not Knowing What You’re Doing — by Jad Abumrad — September 1
  • The Economics Revolution Will Be Televised — September 1
  • What Some of the Greatest Science Fiction Writers Thought 2012 Would Be Like — September 1
  • Stanford researchers' cooling glove 'better than steroids' — September 1
  • The science behind our weirdest behaviours — September 1