Scientific American Blog: Streams of Consciousness
The Sunday after Thanksgiving last year proved tragic for family and friends of 22-year-old Kosta Karageorge. The defensive tackle for the Ohio State Buckeyes was found dead that day after apparently... -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The brain is a dazzlingly complex web of somewhere around 100 billion neurons, each of which communicates with others through thousands of connections. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Every so often, we face a job we dread because it seems exceedingly dull. As a child, I felt that way about household chores—scrubbing a toilet, sweeping a floor, wiping a countertop, weeding. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
When I was kid, I remember my dad scolding my brother and me when one of us decided to hold the other one upside-down. In that position, he reasoned, we could fall on our head. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
// Editor's note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
// Editor's note: Brain Basics from Scientific American Mind is a series of short video primers on the brain and how we feel, think and act. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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