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Continue reading →: The Marvels and Mysteries of Memory: Understanding Our Brain's DesignYour brain is amazing. Every day, it performs a myriad miracles— it sees, hears, tastes, smells, and senses touch. It also feels pain, pleasure, temperature, stress, and a wide range of emotions. It plans things and solves problems. It knows where you are in space so you don’t bump into…
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Continue reading →: Harnessing the Immune System: The Role of Cancer Immunotherapy in the Fight Against CancerOur immune system has evolved over 500 million years into a personalized and effective natural defense against disease. It is a complex biology with a seemingly simple mission: to find and destroy anything that’s not supposed to be in our bodies. Cells of the immune system are on constant patrol,…
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Continue reading →: The Unseen Ethics of Technology: How Inventions Shape Minds and SocietyThe intellectual ethic of a technology is rarely recognized by its inventors. They are usually so intent on solving a particular problem or untangling some thorny scientific or engineering dilemma that they don’t see the broader implications of their work. The users of the technology are also usually oblivious to…
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Continue reading →: The Matthew Effect: How Success Breeds Success in Economics and AltruismRobert K. Merton called this the Matthew Effect. Marketers know it as Cumulative Advantage. In a broader economic context I shall refer to it here as the Bestseller Effect. Once a product gets a head start in sales, it signals to consumers that other people want that product and therefore…
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Continue reading →: The Neuroscience of Branding: How Emotional Connections Drive Consumer ChoicesA powerful branding strategy impels people to talk about the brand and generate referrals, banking mostly upon the human desire to imitate others. The bottom line is that it eases our consumer experience by making an emotional connection and making the experience emotionally rewarding. Our brains want the certainty of…
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Continue reading →: The Brain's Creative Lens: How Familiarity Shapes Perception and Predictability Fuels InnovationThe human brain doesn’t passively take in experience like a recorder; instead, it constantly works over the sensory data it receives – and the fruit of that mental labor is new versions of the world. The basic cognitive software of brains – which drinks in the milieu and procreates new…
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Continue reading →: Unraveling the Brain's Adaptability: Neuroplasticity, Balance, and Spatial AwarenessThe common wisdom was that after childhood the brain changed only when it began the long process of decline; that when brain cells failed to develop properly, or were in-jured, or died, they could not be replaced. Nor could the brain ever alter its structure and find a new way…
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Continue reading →: Understanding the Buyer’s Brain: How Evolution Influences Sales SuccessFirst, with the advent of vertebrates (early fish) 500 million years ago, the reptilian brain was formed. This part of the brain is the fight, flight, freeze, or appease brain. It controls all of our functions such as breathing, digestion, and heart rate. These processes happen automatically–we don’t have to…
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Continue reading →: Smallpox: The Triumph of Eradication and Lessons for Future Disease ControlFor centuries, humanity has fought contagion, working hard to catch, treat or prevent disease, but success has been limited, short-term, and any progress met with an onslaught of new arrivals – or the same enemy in new armor. The war continues today, as only one battle has truly been won…
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Continue reading →: The Mind's Journey: Navigating Happiness and SufferingOur minds are all we have. They are all we have ever had. And they are all we can offer others. This might not be obvious, especially when there are aspects of your life that seem in need of improvement–when your goals are unrealized, or you are struggling to find…
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