The Best College Prank Of The 1790s (With Bats, Poop & Grass) : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR

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How and why people change their emotional mindset: Gateways and Words “Which emotions work as stepping stones towards a happier and more positive state of mind…That the things that makes you become happy are not the same as the things that help you stay happy.”

Which Is Greater, The Number Of Sand Grains On Earth Or Stars In The Sky? : Krulwich Wonders… : NPR ‘We are surrounded by vastness, high and low, and either way, as Blatner’s book says, we “can’t handle the biggitude.”‘

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The GOP Wasted 4 Years on the Wrong Critique of Obama’s Foreign Policy

The Marketplace in Your Brain “One persistent critique of brain-scanning experiments is that while scans show activity in a region, it’s hard to tell if that activity is exciting or inhibiting decision-related nerve impulses. So its exact role in a decision is difficult to pin down. And while there are hints that the scans can […]

Your brain on pseudoscience: the rise of popular neurobollocks “The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism – aka neurobabble, neurobollocks, or neurotrash – and it’s everywhere.”

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