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'Less chaos around you means more calm within you' – 7 surprising and beneficial ways minimalism resets your brain

Reduce your mental load and reconnect with what matters

Homes & Gardens · Jun 15, 2025

What a deal! You can now rent human brain cells on a silicon chip for 7 days for less than a Nintendo Switch 2

Cortical Labs' CL1 is the world’s first commercialized biological computer, and available to buy or rent now.

TechRadar · Jun 14, 2025

Does the color purple really exist?

The color purple is, in a way, invented by our brains.

LiveScience · Jun 14, 2025

5 Things You’re Doing Every Day That Quietly Lower Your IQ

We tend to think of IQ as fixed. Either you’re born smart, or you’re not. But the truth is, your daily habits have a powerful influence on your cognitive performance. Even if you’re not getting dumber, you may be operating far below your full mental potential thanks to a handful…

Clever Dude · Jun 13, 2025

A perfect storm of errors meant Darren was placed in an unsafe cell. He died two days later

Experts say failure to remove known ligature points from the cells of high risk inmates is just one part of the ‘perverse situation’ in Australian jails

The Guardian - AU · Jun 13, 2025

75 Fascinating Facts You Might Not Have Known, As Shared By This IG Page

Who knew that Iceland doesn’t have any mosquitos?

Bored Panda · Jun 13, 2025

‘Transformative’: the UK lab working on a way to halt genetic type of dementia

AviadoBio’s breakthrough therapy hopes to stop progress of FTD, which is usually diagnosed in people under 65

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

‘She didn’t realize we were catching her on her lies’: Brenda Song accused of faking brain tumor

Allegedly, a tumor was not the only thing she faked.

We Got This Covered · Jun 13, 2025

A Trick of the Mind by Daniel Yon review – explaining psychology’s most important theory

An immensely readable dive into the ‘predictive processing’ hypothesis, our best guess as to how the mind really works

The Guardian - UK · Jun 13, 2025

There's a new blood test for Alzheimer's. Here's everything you need to know about it.

In patients showing cognitive decline, a new blood test for Alzheimer's is expected to make diagnosis more convenient, accessible and inexpensive than other existing tests.

LiveScience · Jun 12, 2025