10 verified findings about memory, behavior, animal cognition, and history. Case-file format. The kind of document that changes how you think about being human.
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10 case files. Each one a finding from peer-reviewed research that most people were never taught.
Your brain erased your first three years of memory. Not because the memories faded. Because new neurons physically overwrote the hardware.
When you look into your dog's eyes, both brains release the same bonding hormone that connects a mother and her newborn.
Ancient humans worked 15 to 20 hours per week. They built civilisation in their spare time.
Your brain does not show you reality. It shows you a prediction of reality, and updates the prediction only when it is wrong.
Every time you recall a memory, you alter it. The most-recalled memories are the most-changed memories.
Social rejection activates the same neural circuits as physical pain. Loneliness is a biological warning signal.
Elephants return to the bones of dead family members and stand silently for hours. She is remembering someone.
You make 35,000 decisions per day. The vast majority are made by systems you have no conscious access to.
Before language, before art, humans had rhythm. Music was not a luxury. It was part of what made survival possible.
65% of ordinary people administered what they believed were lethal shocks because an authority figure told them to.
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