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Top Neuroscience Stories of 2017, Wisely Annotated
The top neuroscience stories of 2017 help teachers understand the brain, its connection to the body, ADHD, and the guidance that science can offer teachers. Continue reading
The Effect of Alcohol on Learning…
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The Science of Creativity
In this 20 minute video, James Kaufman explains how researchers define creativity, and how they…
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Because brains are so complicated, people who explain them routinely search for analogies. Your brain…
Thinking VERY Slowly about “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Five years later, economics blogger Jason Collins rereads–and rereviews–Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.