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The Edge of the Sky: A Poetic Primer on the Science of the Universe Composed in the 1,000 Most Common Words in the English Language

“Perhaps the All-There-Is is not all there is.”

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The Science of Mood in Animals: Can Pets Be Depressed?

The science behind what every pet-parent knows.

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Mood Science and the Evolutionary Origins of Depression

What language and symbolism have to do with mood and how light exposure and sleep shape our mental health.

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Famous Writers’ Sleep Habits vs. Literary Productivity, Visualized

The early bird gets the Pulitzer … sort of.

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The Science of Dreams and Why We Have Nightmares

The psychology of our built-in nocturnal therapy.

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The Psychology of Writing and the Cognitive Science of the Perfect Daily Routine

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrieval cues.

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The Science of How Memory Works

What the four “slave” systems of the mind have to do with riding a bicycle.

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Mary Roach on the Science of Masturbation and the Outrageous Vintage Pseudoscientific Techniques for Controlling It

A cautionary tale of what happens when religious dogmatism attempts to subvert science.

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The 13 Best Science and Technology Books of 2013

The wonders of the gut, why our brains are wired to be social, what poetry and math have in common, swarm intelligence vs. “God,” and more.

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The Art of “Creative Sleep”: Stephen King on Writing and Wakeful Dreaming

“In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.”

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Search results for “the science of sleep”

“Perhaps the All-There-Is is not all there is.”

The science behind what every pet-parent knows.

What language and symbolism have to do with mood and how light exposure and sleep shape our mental health.

The early bird gets the Pulitzer … sort of.

The psychology of our built-in nocturnal therapy.

How to sculpt an environment that optimizes creative flow and summons relevant knowledge from your long-term memory through the right retrieval cues.

What the four “slave” systems of the mind have to do with riding a bicycle.

A cautionary tale of what happens when religious dogmatism attempts to subvert science.

The wonders of the gut, why our brains are wired to be social, what poetry and math have in common, swarm intelligence vs. “God,” and more.

“In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives.”

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