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Make This Note-Taking Switch If You Want to Learn Faster

Neuroscience shows a clear advantage for this one note-taking method

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I’m a Neuroscientist & I Do These 3 Overlooked Exercises Daily to Age Better

You might have never heard of them

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Dec 3, 2025

Steve Jobs Used This Method to Think Better & Neuroscience Validates It

He intuitively did what is now backed by science & you can apply it, too

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Oct 9, 2025

As a Neuroscientist, Here Are 10 Things I Don’t Do (& What I Do Instead)

You probably do #1, and maybe more

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As a Neuroscientist, I Quit These 5 Morning Habits That Destroy Your Brain

Most people do #1 within 10 minutes of waking (and it sabotages your entire day)

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Why Your Brain Is Secretly Working Against You

And how to stop it, according to science

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5 Bizarre Phenomena That Correlate With Anne Hathaway Movies

Voting behavior, UFO sightings, you name it!

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Nov 4

As a Neuroscientist, I Use These 5 Overlooked Tools to Handle Stress

Most of them are unknown, especially #2 & #3

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Oct 27

She Was Told Her Chest Pain Was Just Anxiety; 3 Days Later She Was Dead

Would she still be alive if she were a man?

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Making Peace With a Messed-Up Childhood

It took a death and almost 2 years to achieve emotional closure

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