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Clayton Page Aldern • How a warming Earth is changing our brains, bodies and minds | Aeon Essays
Yuval Noah Harari • Sapiens
The Oxford Word of the Year for 2024 is ‘brain rot’ which they defined as: “the supposed deterioration of a person’s mental or intellectual state, especially viewed as the result of overconsumption of material (now particularly online content) considered to be trivial or unchallenging. Also: something characterized as likely to lead to such deterio
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In contrast, baby brains modify across vast territories.
David Eagleman • Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain
changes involves the brain: it often gets smaller, probably to save energy, because big brains are expensive to maintain.
Steve Brusatte • The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us
For the bulk of human history, the most learned members of our species have wildly underestimated the human brain’s capabilities. This is understandable, since your brain occupies only about 2 percent of your body mass, and it looks like a blob of gray gelatin. Ancient Egyptians deemed it a useless organ and tugged it out of dead pharaohs through t
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