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Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”: A Neuropsychology Reading
Bobby McFerrin’s “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”: A Neuropsychology Reading

Unpacking the lyrics of the iconic happiness anthem to find surprising science-tested insights on well-being.

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Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge
Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge

Going beyond biology’s limits, or how laboratory advances will change the way we think about the law.

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The Longevity Project: Insights on Life from an 80-Year Study
The Longevity Project: Insights on Life from an 80-Year Study

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TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1
TEDGlobal Highlights: Day 1

Tiny objects, supermassive holes, and everything in between.

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Feeling Thoughts, Playing Visions
Feeling Thoughts, Playing Visions

Public display of emotion, world-saving vocabulary, the new jet set, David Lynch, the animal in us, what Mike Gravel and Moby have in common, why parting with our miniature sheep collection finally seems doable, and how everything begins with music.

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Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change
Redirect: A New Way to Think About Psychological Change

How Aristotle went about cultivating virtue, or what Susan Sontag can teach us about self-improvement.

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The Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers
The Moby Awards for Best and Worst Book Trailers

What zero-gravity intercourse has to do with the future of information and the fate of the printed page.

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TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day One
TED 2011: The Rediscovery of Wonder, Day One

This week, we’re letting our brains explode so you don’t have to.

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Artist Spotlight: Alan Macdonald
Artist Spotlight: Alan Macdonald

The commercialization of heaven, or what 17th century painters know about Diet Coke that we don’t.

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The Bookworm Issue
The Bookworm Issue

The world’s first $430 million book, college admissions on steroids, the little bookshop that took the click-and-mortar universe by storm, agency all-stars, how print may solve the global warming crisis, and why Philly’s 30th Street Station needs the best a man can get. Welcome to The Bookworm Issue.

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