Science
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Alien Hand Syndrome
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2 min read
What if you woke up one day and had a brand new second hand that moved on its own? This is what happened to Karen after she had brain surgery to help cure her epilepsy. After her operation, her left hand immediately took on a life of its own. For starters, it immediately began to…
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Want to remember more of what you read? Give your brain a 10-15 minute rest. No phones, no distractions, just pure boredom, a quiet room and dimmed lights. Why do we need to reduce interference? It takes longer for new information to encode and simply consuming more or squandering time on social media will make…
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Tomorrow’s World: Children in 1966 predict what the world will be like in the year 2000
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1 min read
Well-spoken, cynical, and eerily accurate, in 1966 these kids predicted what life would be like in the year 2000. Their predictions include: The rise of robots and job loss due to automation The threat of nuclear war Globalization and the destruction of cultures (note: they couldn’t have foreseen the backlash) Population and overcrowding Genetically modified…
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Are we living in a computer simulation?
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1 min read
Perhaps what we see isn’t what we get. Instead, life is just computer code and humans are information. So does a simulated life mean that we can live forever? Says theoretical physicist James Gates: “If the simulation hypothesis is valid, then we open the door to eternal life and resurrection and things that formally have…
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The Population Bomb
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1 min read
In 1968, Doctor Paul Ehrlich warned the world of its excessive population with his book entitled The Population Bomb (Amazon). “The battle to feed all of humanity is over,” he wrote, “hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death.” His trip to an overcrowded Delhi in 1966 seemed to convince him that there…
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We shape Earth. It shapes us.
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1 min read
We shape the Earth, and it shapes us. For all the pieces interact, transforming into a cohesive thought. The trees grow in cities, the oceans meet at the cape. All the pieces interact, enveloped by the space inside. The weather is fickle, cyclical, everything too much for a remix, itching for evolution. To get closer to the texture of…
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Upgrade your human operating system
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1 min read
There is no doubt that the mind changes as it ages. You’ll be a different person in your 20s, 30s, and so on. For some, brain deterioration is genetic. While you can’t medicate mental problems away, you can upgrade your internal software by widening your perception and controlling your emotions to so-called triggers. The human brain…