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Today on the show, we meet a prosthetic designer and a neuroscientist fascinated with understanding how the brain and body might adapt to something we haven't had before — a third thumb. Dani Clode and Tamar Makin spoke to Short Wave in Washington D.C., at the 2023 annual meeting for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).
TikTok is encouraging us to embrace the tearful look as an aesthetic. Are these sad girl makeup trends problematic or encouraging us to show our feelings?
Scientists have shown for the first time that briefly tuning into a person's individual brainwave cycle before they perform a learning task dramatically boosts the speed at which cognitive skills improve.
The first study to show that delivering information at the natural tempo of our neural pulses accelerates our ability to learn.
Our brains are far more varied than they think