14 connected korrents · 14 moments from 27 Aug 2010 to 18 Sept 2026.
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Adults, like children, focus and learn better when they get regular breaks for exercise, sunlight, and unstructured play.
Last stated 30 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Gretchen Rubin
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Children develop by struggling and failing on the road to success while a caring adult supports them, and school should be running that loop all day instead of leaving it to after-school sports.
Last stated 31 Aug 2026 · 2 months ago
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Joe Liemandt
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Five hours a week with grandchildren goes with better memory in older adults, and more than twenty hours a week does not.
Last stated 13 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Alan Castel
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Putting older adults into activities that are genuinely new to them improves cognitive function in randomised trials, with executive function the most reliable gain.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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High-intensity exercise improves hippocampal structure and function precisely because it releases a lot of cortisol, which is the opposite of the case made against hard training.
Last stated 20 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Tommy Wood
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Doing less and doing it better is worth pursuing as an end in itself, because a life with both freedom and focus is a life well lived.
Last stated 27 Aug 2010 · 16 years ago
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Cal Newport
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Same subject: behavioural science
A belief system combining cosmic stakes, privileged knowledge, personal vocation and an imperative to act can license extraordinary behavior when it conflicts with ordinary constraints.
Last stated 17 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Venkatesh Rao
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Same subject: behavioural science
A cancellation-reason drop-down measures list order rather than reasons: randomise the options and every one of them gets picked equally.
Last stated 25 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Jason Cohen
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Same subject: behavioural science
A decision cannot be judged by its outcome, because good decisions fail through no fault of the decider and bad ones succeed by luck.
Last stated 9 Aug 2022 · 4 years ago
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Gary Klein
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Same subject: health and fitness
A celebrated popular science book can consistently misrepresent the literature it summarises and contradict its own sources.
Last stated 15 Nov 2019 · 7 years ago
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Alexey Guzey
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Same subject: health and fitness
A conclusion being biologically reasonable is not the same as its having been proven.
Last stated 11 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago
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Peter Attia
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Same subject: health and fitness
A drop in heart rate variability values typically precedes the onset of noticeable sickness symptoms by about a day.
Last stated 18 Sept 2026 · a month ago
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Ray Maker
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Same subject: attitude change
Blaming and shaming people only makes them defensive, dig in their heels, or tune out, rather than change their minds.
Last stated 9 Jun 2026 · 4 months ago
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Adam Grant
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Same subject: attitude change
Imaginary social trends can spuriously shape people's real beliefs and behaviors.
Last stated 7 Mar 2022 · 5 years ago
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Adam Mastroianni
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Same subject: attitude change
Public scrutiny of a new technology tends to jump only after a deadly incident, otherwise rising slowly over decades
Last stated 15 Jan 2026 · 9 months ago
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Miles Brundage