Anxiety
Why Your Outbreath is Connected to Your Well-Being
What is the vagus nerve, and how does it connect to our breathing and emotions? Learn the science around this key messenger of the nervous system.
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Compassion
How Your Brain Falls for the Wrong Ideas
Our own cognitive biases, combined with a fast-paced chaotic environment, wear down our ability to discern false narratives from facts. Amishi Jha explains the science on how to shift away from divisiveness and boost your brain’s resilience.
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Compassion
Why Our Brains Love Gossip
Dacher Keltner, director of the Berkeley Social Interaction Lab, explains how gossip can be a social practice that works for the greater good.
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Daily Practices
What Your Body Knows Before Your Brain Does
Michelle Maldonado offers a practice for tuning in to the wisdom of the body.
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Focus
Your Brain Predicts (Almost) Everything You Do
Cutting-edge neuroscience shows that your brain isn’t built for thinking—it’s made to predict your reality, and you have more power over that perception than you might think.
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Anxiety
Good News: Your Brain Will Adapt to Post-COVID Life
We may be headed for reverse culture shock when we re-enter society. But just as our brains worked to adjust to our current state of life, they must go through the same process to adjust to post-COVID reality.
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Compassion
The Wisdom of Loving Your Enemy
We tend to hold on to beliefs, stories, and biases against others that end up hurting us, too. Here’s how we can loosen our grip.
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Focus
Sharon Begley: Remembering a Top-Flight Science Journalist
In a final note to our readers, Sharon Begley, our longtime science columnist, told us to “never stop wondering.”
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Calm
This Is Your Brain on Lies
Whether it’s lying about being sick or being stuck in traffic, telling a white lie may seem to make our lives a lot more convenient. But research shows when we shrug off white lies, we feel more comfortable telling bigger lies and hurting the people we care about.
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Calm
This Neuroscientist Decoded the Brain Patterns of Meditators
Recent neuroscientific research results illuminate the way a meditator's internal
brain processes can flow and fluctuate during meditation.
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