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How meditation can change your life and mind | Sam Harris, Jon Kabat-Zinn & more | Big Think

Change Your Behavior with Adorable Rewards – and Pavlovian Shocks | Watch the newest video from Big Think: https://bigth.ink/NewVideo Join Big Think Edge for exclusive videos: https://bigth.ink/Edge ———————————————————————————- Whether you’re hatching “new-you” resolutions or need to end a bad habit, … Continue reading

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Neuromarketing: You’re Being Manipulated

Neuromarketing: You’re Being Manipulated – https://aperture.gg/neuromarketing […]

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This Is Not What an Atom Looks Like

What does an atom look like? Throughout history scientists and philosophers have attempted to answer this question. As a result, they’ve come up with some useful models for understanding the building blocks of our universe. Learn more about quantum physics: … Continue reading

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The Microscope That Uses Quantum Physics to Trace Atoms

In the late 1970s, two physicists in Switzerland set out to invent a new type of microscope using quantum physics that would allow them to do something no one had ever done before: see the individual atoms in a sheet … Continue reading

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Why Is It So Hard to Fix Traffic?

Fixing traffic seems easy—just add more roads, right? Turns out that this is a problem studied by physicists and psychologists alike, with no easy answers. Hosted by: Hank Green […]

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The Fascinating World Inside of a Piano

[…] Recently I was lucky enough to get a top notch piano technician — Damon Groves on camera to explain all kinds of things related to how pianos work from the inside, how pianos are made, the different parts of … Continue reading

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What do the pedals on a piano do? | Cunningham Piano Company, Philadelphia, King of Prussia, PA

[…] Pianos, keyboards and digital pianos can have one to three foot pedals that perform various musical functions. The most important pedal is the Damper or Sustain pedal, usually found on the furthest right on acoustic instruments, and the only … Continue reading

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Elements of Webb: Salt, Ep10

The Webb Telescope is full of precise optical components, some of which include lenses made out of salt. Why? Find out why our infrared telescope requires this unexpected lens in this episode of Elements of Webb. Credits: NASA’s Goddard Space … Continue reading

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BBC World Service – The Conversation, Rock on! The art of dry stone walling

Two women from Italy and the US discuss the skills needed to build a solid dry stone wall Dry stone walling is an ancient craft that goes back thousands of years and remains an important means of enclosing fields in … Continue reading

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An unflinching speech encouraged Germany to face the Nazi past | Aeon Essays

Helmut Walser Smith is the Martha Rivers Ingram Chair of History and professor of history at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. His books include The Butcher’s Tale: Murder and Antisemitism in a German Town(2002), The Continuities of German History: Nation, … Continue reading

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