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Don’t just do it, think about it too: how Gilbert Ryle’s philosophy of mind can help athletes teach themselves to improve
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General anesthesia hijacks sleep circuitry to knock you out: After 170 years, nobody was quite sure where anesthesia worked on the brain
Researchers have found that general anesthesia induces unconsciousness by hijacking the neural circuitry that makes us fall sleep. They traced this neural circuitry back to a cluster of cells at the base of the brain responsible for churning out hormones to regulate bodily functions, mood, and sleep. The finding could lead to better drugs capable of putting people to sleep with fewer side effects.
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The Kids Use TikTok Now Because Data-Mined Videos Are So Much Fun
Most nights, from around 7 till midnight, Sydney Jade is on TikTok , the smartphone app of the moment. The platinum blond teenager films herself singing show…
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The tech that most people depend on must appeal to our fears and vanities and must require continuous and rapid overturn. If it were…
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Big Business: Tyler Cowen’s Compelling Case for Large Corporations | National Review
A review of Big Business: A Love Letter to an American Anti-Hero, by Tyler Cowen.
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Typography 2020 | Butterick’s Practical Typography
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Let’s assume, for purposes of argument, that basically all of the complaints about social media are correct. Then let’s also imagine, as Matt Yglesias periodically suggests on Twitter, that Facebook is shut down altogether, toss in Twitter and the others as well. What would happen? One possibility is that America would move toward a Chinese-style …
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Irresponsible musings on Lamarckian evolution
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“Never to be forgotten” is how Adam Smith described each of the two men who influenced him most, and only those two: his best friend David Hume and his Glasgow teacher and mentor Francis Hutcheson. Huge hearted, Hutcheson was larger than life, the warm soul of the Scottish Enlightenment in the decades preceding his death …
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Dale Earnhardt Sr. was a true rebel
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Jeopardy! Legend Ken Jennings on James Holzhauer: 'It's Absolutely Insane'
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Jeopardy Wasn’t Designed for a Contestant Like James Holzhauer
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Broke Millennials Are Flocking to Financial Guru Dave Ramsey. Is His Advice Any Good?
For a growing swath of people, his word is gospel.
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Viruses Have a Secret, Altruistic Social Life - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus
Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog.Researchers are beginning to understand the ways in which viruses…
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The Best Hike in Every State
Alpine scrambles and beach-front strolls; multi-day singletrack adventures and quick urban escapes; soaring trees and rolling sand dunes—every state in the country has something to offer intrepid hikers. So we rounded up a bucket-list-worthy, best-of-the-best guide.
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NASA Kelly twins study shows harsh effects of space flight and a brutal return to Earth
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