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The brain’s breathtaking complexity exists in a highly sensitive, fragile environment, which is why a head injury or sharp jolt can damage this “wiring” and disrupt the delicate synaptic connections.
Brant Cortright • The Neurogenesis Diet and Lifestyle: Upgrade Your Brain, Upgrade Your Life
Foundation for the Study of Personality in History,
Kevin Dutton • The Wisdom of Psychopaths
interactive “exhibits” were sorted by discipline (anthropology, psychology, history, and others), concept (change, logistics, productivity, and so on), and strategic theme (competition, cooperation, unions and alliances, and more).
David Epstein • Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
When no one takes responsibility for anything but his or her own well-being, a civilization rots from within and finally collapses.
Phil Stutz • The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion
“neurogenesis is clearly involved in our interactions with our environment, both emotionally and cognitively,” says neuroscientist Fred Gage, of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California.
Eric Hagerman • Spark!: How exercise will improve the performance of your brain
The take-home message from Schelling’s story—that incentives sometimes backfire—is familiar to psychologists.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
Human and biological networks (like the networks of neurons in our brains) in particular have been shown to have a “breakpoint,