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The Evolution of House Cats
Genetic and archaeological findings hint that wildcats became house cats earlier--and in a different place--than previously thought
Learn to Think Better: Tips from a Savant
A greater awareness therefore of the context in which we acquire a particular piece of information can help improve our ability to remember it later on.
A Recipe for Motivation: Easy to Read, Easy to Do
the result of two experiments that should convince all content developers to keep the presentation of information clear and legible.
The Secrets of Storytelling: Why We Love a Good Yarn
Common themes in storytelling reveal clues about our evolutionary history and roots of emotion and empathy in the mind
Building the 21st-Century Mind
Promoting Five Minds, Howard Gardner argues we must re-think the way we think, esp for learning.
How to Save New Brain Cells
There may be some neurological truth to those claims that memorizing lists or daily Sudoku encourages mental limberness. Even more importantly, the results lend some support that people in early stages of Alzheimers disease may slow their cognitive declin
Set in Our Ways: Why Change Is So Hard
Even though we yearn for what is new, most of us are unable or willing to make fundamental changes in our lives. Change is rarely as easy as we think it will be.
Procrastinating Again? How to Kick the Habit: Scientific American
It seems everyone occassionally procrastinates, 15 to 20 percent of adult routinely put off activities that would be better accomplished right away, and a whopping 80 to 95 percent of college students have a penchant for postponement.
Five Fallacies of Grief: Debunking Psychological Stages
Why stages? We are pattern-seeking, storytelling primates trying to make sense of an often chaotic and unpredictable world.
Never Say Die: Why We Can't Imagine Death
"And so person permanence may be the final cognitive hurdle that gets in the way of our effectively realizing the dead as they truly are—infinitely in situ, inanimate carbon residue. Instead it's much more "natural" to imagine them as existing in some vag
Why Migraines Strike
The disorder used to be considered a vascular one, but recent research reveals it to be neurological, related to a wave of nerve cell activity that sweeps across the brain. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sciam.com%2Farticle
Tough Choices: How Making Decisions Tires Your Brain
Insights into the brain as a muscle: when depleted it comes less effective. Making choices depletes what is known as executive resources, and "downstream" decisions are affected adversely when we are forced to choose with a fatigued brain. Annotated link
The Mirror Neuron Revolution: Explaining What Makes Humans Social
Neuroscientist Marco Iacoboni discusses mirror neurons, autism and the potentially damaging effects of violent movies.
Can Lifestyle Changes Bring Out the Best in Genes?
"People say, 'Oh, it's all in my genes, what can I do?' That's what I call genetic nihilism. This may be an antidote to that. Genes may be our predisposition, but they are not our fate."
How to Unleash Your Creativity
Three experts on creativity, each with different backgrounds and perspectives offer practical tactics to unleash your creative self.
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