What the quark?! Why matter’s most basic building blocks may not exist
Quarks are the subatomic particles thought to make up nearly everything we can see. Now it turns out they could be an illusion created by quantum trickery.
How do you hurt a psychopath? How do you identify weaknesses/vulnerabilities of a psychopath and use it to hurt them?
The only real way to “hurt” a psychopath is to completely refuse to play the game they entice you with. Psychopaths ego’s are based on the fact that they “think” they are more intelligent than you and that all non psychopaths are vulnerable and easily manipulated.
Resilience is the new happiness
Happiness is a serious business. Inspired by the positive psychology movement, corporations hold positions for “chief fun officers” and esteemed institutions like Stanford and Yale offer classes on happiness. But this infatuation with good times is only creating confusion about what it means to succeed, and what skills we need to thrive.
Your Beliefs About How Your Memory Works Is a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Did you forget to pick up the milk?!
We often curse our lack of recalling what we just heard, such as forgetting one of the items that a significant other told us to pick up at the grocery store.
Magic Trick Helps Scientists Study How Brain Perceives the Body
Neuroscientists are using the “mirror box” illusion, a classic trick used by magicians, to reveal how the brain processes multiple sensory inputs to perceive our bodies and the world around us.
Fantástico novo experimento confirma que a realidade não existe se não estivermos olhando.
Conforme uma famosa teoria da física quântica, o comportamento de uma partícula altera-se dependendo se há ou não um observador. Basicamente, ela sugere que a realidade é um tipo de ilusão que só existe quando estamos olhando. Inúmeros experimentos quânticos foram realizados no passado e mostraram que de fato é bem isso que acontece.
Science and Buddhism Agree: There Is No «You» There
Evan Thompson of the University of British Columbia has verified the Buddhist belief of anatta, or not-self.
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