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Your Brain on Empty: Why Stress and Bad Sleep Kill Free Will

Your Brain on Empty: Why Stress and Bad Sleep K...

The biological case for why "just try harder" is asking a car with an empty tank to accelerate.    There's a war happening inside your skull, and it's been going...

Your Brain on Empty: Why Stress and Bad Sleep K...

The biological case for why "just try harder" is asking a car with an empty tank to accelerate.    There's a war happening inside your skull, and it's been going...

Two Steps Closer: The Invisible Physics of Why You Eat What's Nearby

Two Steps Closer: The Invisible Physics of Why ...

Your behavior isn't a reflection of your values. It's a reflection of what's closest, easiest, and most immediately available.   Before you had a prefrontal cortex, before you had language...

Two Steps Closer: The Invisible Physics of Why ...

Your behavior isn't a reflection of your values. It's a reflection of what's closest, easiest, and most immediately available.   Before you had a prefrontal cortex, before you had language...

You Become Whoever You Eat Dinner With

You Become Whoever You Eat Dinner With

Obesity, smoking, and happiness all spread through social networks like a contagion. Here's what that means for the people you keep closest.   Try a quick thought experiment. Think of...

You Become Whoever You Eat Dinner With

Obesity, smoking, and happiness all spread through social networks like a contagion. Here's what that means for the people you keep closest.   Try a quick thought experiment. Think of...

You're Not Lacking Willpower. You're Losing to Engineers with PhDs

You're Not Lacking Willpower. You're Losing to ...

The reframe that changes everything: stop asking what's wrong with you, start asking what the room was built to make you do   Let's be precise about something the language...

You're Not Lacking Willpower. You're Losing to ...

The reframe that changes everything: stop asking what's wrong with you, start asking what the room was built to make you do   Let's be precise about something the language...

Your Body Isn't Broken. It's Adapted to a Bad Environment

Your Body Isn't Broken. It's Adapted to a Bad E...

Evolutionary mismatch explained: humans evolved for movement, variable food, sunlight, stress-recovery cycles. Now we have chairs and fluorescent lighting.

Your Body Isn't Broken. It's Adapted to a Bad E...

Evolutionary mismatch explained: humans evolved for movement, variable food, sunlight, stress-recovery cycles. Now we have chairs and fluorescent lighting.

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Why Sitting Is Quietly Wrecking Your Health (An...

The surprising science of what your body loses when it stops moving — and why an hour at the gym isn't the answer   Here's a thought experiment that clarifies...

Why Sitting Is Quietly Wrecking Your Health (An...

The surprising science of what your body loses when it stops moving — and why an hour at the gym isn't the answer   Here's a thought experiment that clarifies...