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If you take five milligrams of melatonin—which is often a standard dose that’s sold over the counter in the U.S.—Roxanne said you risk “blowing out your melatonin receptors,” which would make it harder to sleep without them.
Johann Hari • Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--and How to Think Deeply Again
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Olivia Campbell • Lauding Lise Meitner, Who Said ‘No’ to the Atomic Bomb
But it can also go the other way. What economics has missed is that adding an incentive—a fine or a bonus—may be subtracting something else, the individual’s sense of responsibility, or obligation, or intrinsic pleasure.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Neuroscience research shows that when an expert speaks, parts of your brain actually shut down: In a 2009 study, Emory University School of Medicine scientists led by Gregory Berns, M.D., a professor of neuroeconomics and psychiatry at Emory, found that people will actually stop thinking for themselves when a person they perceive as an expert offer
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Dan Ariely • Dollars and Sense
Biology, Tech & Ethics
Snippets and Thought Pieces Curated for Come To Mind Newsletter, Issue #8
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