To Struggle is Human
To Struggle is Human Every year, as I get older, the conviction grows in me that things used to be
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Your Brain Is Lying to You Right Now: Why you can't trust your own explanations
In the 1960s, two researchers, Roger Sperry and Michael Gazzaniga, began studying patients whose corpus callosum had been severed. Think
Why Fat Tigers Stop Hunting: The trap that waits at the end of every success
When Tigers Grow Fat I watched a video of tourists feeding wild Amur tigers through thick glass panels. The tigers
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How to Hunt a Buffalo: Why your target matters more than your effort
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Your Voice Isn't Yours: How to tell your own opinions from inherited ones
Your Voice Is a Meme Voices are interesting things. Many people hate the way they sound. We're often
Why Goldfish Stay Small (And You Might Too): How your surroundings cap what you become
Goldfish are cute, small fish that equally small children like to keep as pets. Except, they're not always
Why Ice Is Slippery (We Were Wrong): How confident ignorance survives for centuries
How Little We Know The average person is wrong about the most trivial things. But don't worry - they&
