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NeuroBlog
Personal Growth & Learning • Education
We uncover when mechanical memorization is more effective than understanding, and how to harness it without stifling your critical thinking.
NeuroBlog
Artificial intelligence • Technologies
The longer the conversation with AI lasts, the more it loses the thread – like a conversational partner getting too tired to keep everything said earlier in their head.
Digital Stories
Steampunk Satire
An inventor's apprentice observes as the laboratory mirrors begin to reflect not mere illumination, but a ghastly array of possibilities. Yet, the longer one peers into the abyss of infinity, the more the exit tends to inconveniently absent itself.
NeuroBlog
Science & Technology • Biology
Deconstructing the body's aging mechanism: why we notice the first system failures specifically around age 30, and the explanation modern science offers.
NeuroBlog
Science & Technology • Biology
We uncover the origins of the persistent legend that humans only use a tenth of their brain, and explore why neurobiologists get frustrated every time they hear it.
NeuroBlog
Creativity & Entertainment • Humor
We dissect why the ability to laugh at nonsense is a hallmark of a developed intellect, rather than a degradation of taste, as many are accustomed to presuming. Prepare yourself for an intellectual provocation.
NeuroBlog
The Future & Futurology • Technologies
As the things around us grow smarter, we imperceptibly surrender parts of ourselves – and one day, we may discover that we have forgotten how to think on our own.
Lab
Finance & Economics
Research shows: language models form economic expectations just as irrationally as humans do, prioritizing personal experience over official data.
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