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Seed magazine recently held an essay contest on the topic of scientific literacy. You should read the winning entries.
From the winner:
Students must be convinced that changing one’s mind in light of the evidence is not weakness: Changing one’s mind is the essence of intellectual growth. By forcing students into evidence-based debates with one another, this [...]
I just listened to the best RadioLab episode I’ve ever heard. It’s about Memory and Forgetting, and is a real tear-jerker.
The New York Times has an excellent article by Sandra Blakeslee about the insular cortex, commonly referred to as the insula. The insula recently received a lot of media attention after it was implicated in smoking cessation.
The frontal insula is where people sense love and hate, gratitude and resentment, self-confidence and embarrassment, trust and distrust, [...]
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