- However you spin it, handedness changes with aging.
- How Sapir-Whorf may still have life (via Mind Hacks). But see this analysis of the same data set.
- How labels help us learn.
- How computers help writers.
- How you can get a job like Greta's -- or Chad's.
- How neurons communicate with each other.
- How computers might someday communicate with neurons.
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