Sensory gating is the process by which the brain filters out irrelevant stimuli from the meaningful one. It prevents an

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For the past few weeks, I’ve been drinking a lot and it’s left me with the blues. Shots of Jameson

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I wrote my second-year thesis in the history of ideas about education and child-rearing – specifically, the pedagogic ideas about

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I was really happy the other day when someone told me that an old colleague that used to work with

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I spent the past week writing about Neil Postman’s perspective on technology. Postman was a media theorist who asked the

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There’s something called the Mandela Effect which is the phenomenon where masses of people believe that an event occurred when

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I came across an interesting essay on Asperger’s syndrome. It investigated how the new disease category was established and the

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Last week I finished a novel that left me in sadness and has lingered ever since. It was Nobel Prize

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On a whim, I lowered my dose of olanzapine from 10 to 5mg a couple of weeks back. Like so

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It’s that special time of the year again. I’m sure this Christmas is difficult for many people with inflation and

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