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This Is Your Brain on Silence
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As it turned out, even though all the sounds had short-term neurological effects, not one of them had a lasting impact. Yet to her great surprise, Kirste found that two hours of silence per day prompted cell development in the hippocampus, the brain region related to the formation of memory, involving the senses. This was…
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Do Not Disturb: How I Ditched My Phone and Unbroke My Brain
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The point isn’t to get you off the internet, or even off social media — you’re still allowed to use Facebook, Twitter and other social platforms on a desktop or laptop, and there’s no hard-and-fast time limit. It’s simply about unhooking your brain from the harmful routines it has adopted around this particular device, and…
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Let Children Get Bored Again
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Boredom teaches us that life isn’t a parade of amusements. More important, it spawns creativity and self-sufficiency. Read full article: The New York Times, “Let Children Get Bored Again”
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Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.
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The body’s microbial community may influence the brain and behavior, perhaps even playing a role in dementia, autism and other disorders. Read full article: The New York Times, “Germs in Your Gut Are Talking to Your Brain. Scientists Want to Know What They’re Saying.”
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The Single Most Important Thinking Skill Nobody Taught You
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“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” George Bernard Shaw said that. And Einstein also said, “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” Life is neither static nor unchanging, it’s fluid. Nothing stays the same. Elastic thinking (experts may call it cognitive flexibility) allows us to shift gears and think about something…
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Falling for Sleep
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In Evelyn De Morgan’s numinous painting, Night and Sleep (1878), Nyx, the mighty Greek goddess of night, hovers across a dusky sky with her beloved son Hypnos, the sweet-natured god of sleep. The painting and the Greek gods it captures depict a radically different way of understanding and relating to sleep. In antiquity sleep was personified, transcendent, even romantic.…
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Kids Can Eat Free if Parents Don’t Use Their Phones at This Restaurant
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Parents who give up their phones during dinner will be rewarded with free meals for their kids at one U.K.-based restaurant chain. For the first week of December, Frankie & Benny’s is running its “no-phone zone” campaign in an attempt to improve family interactions at the dinner table. Read full article: Fatherly, “Kids Can Eat Free…
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THE EDUCATIONAL TYRANNY OF THE NEUROTYPICALS
“Neurotypical” is a term used by the autism community to describe what society refers to as “normal.” According to the Centers for Disease Control, one in 59 children, and one in 34 boys, are on the autism spectrum—in other words, neuroatypical. That’s 3 percent of the male population. If you add ADHD—attention deficit hyperactivity disorder—and…
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To Remember, the Brain Must Actively Forget
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What hasn’t received nearly as much attention from memory researchers is how the brain forgets. “The vast majority of the things that are happening to me in my life — the conscious experience I’m having right now — I’m most likely not going to remember when I’m 80,” said Michael Anderson, a memory researcher at…
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Escape to another world
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As video games get better and job prospects worse, more young men are dropping out of the job market to spend their time in an alternate reality. Ryan Avent suspects this is the beginning of something big Read full article: The Economist 1843, “Escape to another world.”