Popular Science

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LOOK AT THE PATTERNED IMAGE above. With the magazine fixed, the design remains still. But move the page ever so slightly, and the decorative display picks up speed. What’s driving this delusive dynamism, says neuroscientist Stephen Macknik at SUNY Do

PEARL

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Jide Adefope IT IS THE CASE that from a certain standpoint the brain functions in some ways similar to the processors of a computer, or that the latter simulates the former. Both are instruments, although of different categorical ranking; the brain's

AdNews

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This unconventional campaign from the Outdoor Media Association first appeared in 2019 and is live again this summer. The message simply says “Look Up”. It’s a bid to engage people in an action that may have a significant impact on the way we think a

Nautilus

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In Samuel Beckett’s novel, The Unnamable, the anonymous narrator laments, “I’m all these words, all these strangers, this dust of words, with no ground for their setting, no sky for their dispersing.” For Beckett’s narrator, words have become unmoore

MASK The Magazine

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As a child from the Midwest, my family grew up on meat and potatoes. At dinnertime, we’d sit around the table, eat and talk about our day. We’d look our elders in the eyes when we spoke and we were encouraged to finish our meal. We’d have dessert and

MASK The Magazine

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The mind is an amazing thing. We learn more and more about it as time goes by. I can tell you that if I were aware of the things I know today, it would have definitely changed the decisions I’ve made as a parent. As parents, we do what we can do with

Woman's Day

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Researchers in the UK are looking at the brain for possible answers to the cause of high blood pressure. “They are focusing on the brain’s involvement in causing blood pressure, and potentially aiming to treat this [as the cause],” says Dr Cohen-Jo

Nautilus

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When Leonid Moroz, a gregarious Russian-born neuroscientist and geneticist at the University of Florida, began studying ctenophores nearly a decade ago, he had a fairly simple goal in mind. He wanted to determine exactly where the blobby marine creat

TRAIL

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Thank you for being brave enough to pose a question that many want to ask. When we try to focus on finding a balance between work and life, it always seems as if something has to give. That feeling is created by the way our brains work. The human min

Popular Science

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YOUR BRAIN IS MOSTLY MUSH: A MESS OF FAT, A SPRINKLING OF WATER, AND TRACE amounts of compounds such as zinc and sulfur. You could probably find most of that stuff in your kitchen. But mix those ingredients together and you get neurons, neurotransmit

Science Illustrated

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Experiments have shown that simple reactivity is linked with intelligence. People with quick reactivity also have averagely higher IQ. Perhaps this is related to faster links between their brain cells. Brain cell links are lined with an insulating la

NPR

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Researchers say it takes a lot of brainpower to stop an action, once it's underway. A study found that when people have to change a planned movement, 11 different brain areas have to get involved.

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In his early years of teaching, Jared Cooney Horvath was surprised at the amount of hype around the brain. It was, unfortunately, only hype. “The brain was getting really sexy,” he recalls. “Everyone was coming into our school saying ‘you need to kno

NPR

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A spinal injury severed the connection between Bill Kochevar's brain and everything below his shoulders. But technology has given him a new way to control one arm and hand.

Guitar Techniques

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I’ve had over 10 emails recently from ‘older learners’ worrying that they started too late to learn guitar and might never be able to play well. Can we define ‘older’? Some people in their late 20s think they started too late. So while I see this as

Cosmos Magazine

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German researchers led by Christian Wolf assessed brain activity associated with specific cues in relation to smartphones. Participants saw pictures showing neutral (NEU) stimuli (eg furniture, plants, landscapes); non-operating smartphones (OFF); or

Futurity

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Quick decision-making and a lot of experience give Olympians an edge, says neuroscientist Christopher Fetsch. Fetsch, assistant professor of neuroscience and researcher in the Zanvyl Krieger Mind/Brain Institute at Johns Hopkins University, studies h

You South Africa

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An octopus is an incredibly intelligent animal, according to Maryke Musson of Cape Town’s Two Oceans Aquarium. There are similarities between the brain of the animal and that of a human brain, including folds in the lobes and specific areas that proc

Boys' Life

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Add six to each number to work your way through the maze. The brain itself feels NO PAIN. The human brain is divided into two halves, left and right. The left brain controls all the muscles on the right side of the body. The right brain controls the

Futurity

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Researchers have created a way to look into the brains of two people simultaneously while they’re talking. What they found will not surprise anyone who has found themselves arguing about politics or social issues. When two people agree, their brains

Woman & Home South Africa

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Did you know that the brain starts shrinking from the age of 30? Or that from the age of 40, we lose brain volume at a rate of 5% per decade'? Yep, that grey matter we rely on to help us do everything from mundane tasks, such as brushing our teeth, a

Futurity

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To maximize information processing, the brain tunes itself to be as excitable as possible without tipping into disorder, new research confirms. Researchers long wondered how the billions of independent neurons in the brain come together to reliably b

Woman's Day Magazine NZ

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Researchers in the UK are looking at the brain for possible answers to the cause of high blood pressure. “They are focusing on the brain’s involvement in causing blood pressure, and potentially aiming to treat this [as the cause],” says Dr Cohen-Jo

Futurity

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An ultra-small, wireless, battery-free device uses light to record individual neurons so neuroscientists can see how the brain is working, researchers report. The mammalian brain is the most complex organ in the body, capable of processing thousands

that's life

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Since the outbreak of COVID-19, studies by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have found increasing rates of psychological distress. According to Professor Ian Hickie, co-director of the Brain and Mind Centre at the University of Sydney, it is predi

Science Illustrated

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Our intellectual capacity is spread across all of the cerebral cortex, but it is apparently not very important how many brain cells we have. Women are just as intelligent as men, although on average they have four billion fewer brain cells. Some brai

Mother & Baby India

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Ever hunted all over the house for your keys, only to find them nestled in the fridge while your sandwich is sitting on the roof of the car? Since the beginning of time, women have wondered if pregnancy does something peculiar to our minds, landing u

Woman's Weekly

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Widowed older people are particularly susceptible to progressive Alzheimer’s disease compared with their married counterparts, according to the Harvard Ageing Brain study. However, studies show employment helps the ageing brain – women’s memory decli

Futurity

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Gamers can now significantly speed up the reconstructing of brain cells’ intricate architecture—a fundamental task in 21st century brain science. Mozak enables citizen scientists to produce complete, 3D reconstructions of neurons from different regio

Futurity

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Neuroscientists know a lot about how our brains learn new things, but not much about how they choose what to focus on while they learn. Now, researchers have traced that ability to an unexpected place in the brain. In order to learn about the world,