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Hacking Your Flow State
By analyzing the brain waves of improvising jazz musicians, researchers now understand how the brain achieves a creative flow state. The findings have practical implications for anyone wanting to get ‘in the zone’ to generate creative ideas. Jeff …
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AI Wants Your Fingerprints
No two human fingerprints are alike. Even different fingers from the same person are unique. But new research from Columbia University using an applied neural network suggests there may be a new way to link intra-person fingerprints with a …
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Sugar Bones
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Link to this week’s story: https://www.npr.org/2024/04/10/1243939166/lunchables-consumer-reports-school-lunch
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Lead for Lunch
Consumer Reports released a new report on Lunchables in which it found lead and cadmium, and also observed the presence of phthalates, which can impact reproductive health and the human hormonal system. Anthony and Jeff discuss the findings, and …
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Animals on the Moon
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Dinosaur Anniversary
It is the 200th anniversary of the first dinosaur discovery, so Jeff and Anthony dig into the story of finding fossils and naming them. It leads them to the wild story of William Buckland, the man who coined the …
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Handwriting Your Memories
A pair of recent studies suggest that the act of putting pen or pencil to paper increases brain activity and retention when compared to typing words into a computer. Anthony and Jeff discuss living a papered life, and whether …
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Citizen Saboteur
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Link to this week’s story: https://boingboing.net/2024/02/12/how-to-disrupt-meetings-the-cia-way.html
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Healing with Your Mind
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Link to this week’s story: https://www.sciencealert.com/our-perception-of-time-can-actually-speed-up-wound-healing
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What Your Humor Says About You
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