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Maybe the brain isn't "classical" after all.
It's on a 100,000-year timescale, though, so the next few centuries might not be so comfortable.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
The larger truth on the streets is that no one uses just one drug anymore.
Historical analyses reveal that crises almost always yield surprising benefits.
"Downward counterfactual thinking" — that is, imagining how things could be worse — is a quick and easy way to boost your well-being and gratitude.
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A psychiatrist studied 1,000 near-death experiences. Here’s what he discovered.
Leftover Cold War-era bunkers are still kept in a state of readiness to protect the population from nuclear war.
The word “turkey” can refer to everything from the bird itself to a populous Eurasian country to movie flops.
Vanadium dioxide is a strange material that "remembers" information and when it was stored. This is akin to biological memory.
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Harvard professor Daniel Lieberman debunks the ‘10,000 steps per day’ myth.
It weakens the bacteria so that the immune system can destroy it.
Airports are like mini-cities: they have places of worship, policing, hotels, fine dining, shopping, and mass transit.
The findings contradict a widespread belief.
The potential new drug is in a class of its own, as it works differently than any other antidepressant on the market.
Metabolism and mitochondrial functioning seem to have far more to do with mental health than many people might expect.
The dating pool is small — no pun intended.
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He lived with a tribe of hunter-gatherers to witness how an ancient culture survives one of the most brutal climates on Earth. His learnings may surprise you.