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The season will bring in speakers working in food relief efforts in Ukraine, as well as in sports, business, music, science and journalism.

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Your personality may help predict your risk for mild cognitive impairment later in life, a new study by the American Psychological Association confirms. People who are conscientious are less likely to show declines in cognitive function later in life. People who are neurotic are more likely, researchers found.

Traditional fact-checking is no match for the power of the crowd in the age of social media

Scientist-author Daniel Levitin on picking up music at an older age

February 27, 2022 – PBS NewsHour Weekend full episode

One of the nicest things about childhood is the feeling that we’ll never get older. Next comes the decade or two of wanting to be older than we are and yearning to be taken more seriously. Then suddenly, we’re on the other side of the spectrum, looking on wistfully at younger people. George Bernard Shaw famously said “youth is wasted on the young”, and I’m quite sure he was a

Too Much InformationAttention is one of the greatest gifts we can give to ourselves and each other. But, of course, we cannot pay attention to ourselves and everyone else in the world all at the same time.In fact, science says that, since our “information speed limit” is 120 bits of

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A Field Guide to Lies and Statistics: A Neuroscientist on How to Make Sense of a Complex World by Levitin, Daniel at AbeBooks.co.uk - ISBN 10:  0241239990 - ISBN 13:  9780241239995 - Viking - 2017 - Hardcover