Working Memory: The Role of the Hippocampus
Your brain probably doesn’t enjoy waking up early anymore than you do — a complicated task of taking in the
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You’re Fired!: The Subordinate Brain at Work
In our market-based economy, everyone has a boss. Most of us answer to a manager or supervisor, but even
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Attempting to define the word intelligence is a complex and often difficult endeavor. Is intelligence simply the numerical result measured
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The discovery and description of DNA earned scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins the 1962 Nobel Prize. Their
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New insight into love might help us make it better Since the days when our ancestor Australopithecus first sauntered across
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Racism and the Brain This summer, the fatal shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri,
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“The illiterates of the future are not those who cannot read or write, but those who cannot learn, un-learn, and
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When another person gets you, how does it make you feel? At times, it seems like we don’t really want
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In 1997, members of the Heaven’s Gate cult prepared themselves for what they believed would be a spaceship coming on
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Are you familiar with the Battlestar Galactica franchise? It’s a military-inspired sci-fi television series that has spanned (sporadically) across several
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