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The Effect of Alcohol on Learning…
…might not be what you’d expect. My prediction would have been that if I have…
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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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Your Brain Is Like a Computer, take 357
Because brains are so complicated, people who explain them routinely search for analogies. Your brain…
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Thinking VERY Slowly about “Thinking, Fast and Slow”
Five years later, economics blogger Jason Collins rereads–and rereviews–Kahneman’s Thinking, Fast and Slow.