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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…
The Science of Creativity
In this 20 minute video, James Kaufman explains how researchers define creativity, and how they…
Your Brain Is Like a Computer, take 357
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.