Articles for January 2020.
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January 17 · Issue #4 · View online
A monthly curation for those of us who
• Think critically.
• Teach young minds how to think critically.
• Communicate critically assessed information to interested audiences.
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Articles for January 2020.
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How the gut microbes you're born with affect your lifelong health | Henna-Maria Uusitupa
Your lifelong health may have been decided the day you were born, says microbiome researcher Henna-Maria Uusitupa. In this fascinating talk, she shows how the gut microbes you acquire during birth and as an infant impact your health into adulthood – and discusses new microbiome research that could help tackle problems like obesity and diabetes.
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Good Science, Bad Science, Pseudoscience: How to Tell the Difference
In a digital world that clamors for clicks, news is sensationalized and “facts” change all the time. Here’s how to discern what is trustworthy and what is hogwash.
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Survey of scientists sheds light on reproducibility crisis (2016)
The burning question: why are scientific studies so difficult to replicate?
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Why can’t we agree on what’s true any more?
We live in a time of political fury and hardening cultural divides. But if there is one thing on which virtually everyone is agreed, it is that the news and information we receive is biased. Every second of every day, someone is complaining about bias, in everything from the latest movie reviews to sports commentary to the BBC’s coverage of Brexit.
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Focus has become more valuable than intelligence (2018)
In the attention economy, where your small resources of of attention are being pulled in numerous directions, the ability to focus and pay attention is the greatest skill that you can haves to control of your life.
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Macro-mind thinking
The flip side of focused attention: zooming out and getting a Panasonic view of consciousness.
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To Help the Environment in 2020, Just Do Less
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Why Creativity Is a Numbers Game
Even prolific inventors Like Thomas Edison failed more often than they succeeded. But, he kept at it. Creativity doesn’t come in sudden bursts; you have to keep plugging away at it.
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3 myths about creativity that are probably holding you back
Even highly accomplished people can feel insecure about thinking creatively. Here’s how you can improve that ability
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How to turn off work thoughts during your free time | Guy Winch
Feeling burned out? You may be spending too much time ruminating about your job, says psychologist Guy Winch. Learn how to stop worrying about tomorrow’s tasks or stewing over office tensions with three simple techniques aimed at helping you truly relax and recharge after work.
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Where Is My Mind? - Issue 79: Catalysts
In 1976, Francis Crick arrived at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, overlooking a Pacific Shangri-La with cotton candy skies and a beaming, blue-green sea. He had already won the Nobel Prize for co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA, revealing the basis of life to be a purely physical, not a mystical, process. He hoped to do the same thing for consciousness. If matter was strange enough to explain a creature’s life code, he thought, maybe it’s stra nge enough to explain a creature’s mind, too.
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We are programmed to be lazy
If you have to force yourself up off your couch to try to get in some physical activity, rest assured, you are not the only one in this situation. For decades, communication campaigns have encouraged us to exercise, yet an estimated 30% of adults aren’t active enough. And this inaction is constantly increasing everywhere on the planet.
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So You Think You Know Gravity? Let Us Drop Some Knowledge
Join astrophysicist Janna Levin on a mind- and space-time-bending journey into the force to end all forces.
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Apocalyptic Thinking Is Wrong
“Let’s not teach our children that apocalyptic thinking is right thinking,” says Laurence Siegel. Apocalypticism “has always been wrong as a forecast, and it will continue to be wrong.”
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Key practices for achieving large professional goals
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A unique brain signal may be the key to human intelligence
- Most research regarding human brains is performed with rodent brains on the assumption that it may also apply to us.
- An unusual study looked at recently resected human brain tissue that turned out to contain some big surprises.
- Human neurons’ unexpected electrical signals and their behavior shed new light on human intelligence.
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