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Inside the Dangerous Mission to Understand What Makes Extremists Tick—and How to Change Their Minds
On a cool winter’s day in early 2014, the American academic Nafees Hamid was invited for tea at the second-story at the Barcelona apartment of a young Moroccan man. It started well enough; they sat
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Feel Like You’re Going Out of Your Mind? Consider Your Mind-Set
About 13 years ago I made a mistake in a column written for this newspaper. In the hierarchy of errors, it wasn’t a major one, but it was embarrassing. I said daylight saving time had begun when
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The Mindset You Need To Succeed at Every Goal
Whenever you read about the secrets of success, you’ll no doubt come across that well-known quote from Thomas Edison, that “genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration”. While inventing the lightbulb, we are
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Can We Reverse Aging? The Astonishing Power Of The Human Mind
The human mind has always been an object of great astonishment. A tremendous amount of research has been done to understand the functioning and power of the brain. Scientists have pushed the boundaries of possibilities
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The Meandering Path to That ‘Aha!’ Moment
A psychological study suggests that creative professionals may have their most inventive ideas when their minds are wandering.
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Here’s why Elizabeth Koch, the daughter of a GOP megadonor, chose science over politics
Elizabeth Koch is obsessed with the self—not just hers, but yours and mine, too. She’s the founder of a neuroscience nonprofit called the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, which aims “to understand the nature of consciousness
