by Soundarya | Apr 28, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
There is something fundamentally mischievous about the human memory. We might remember an incident from when we were ten years old, perhaps of a rainy day when our mom let us buy butterscotch ice cream at the kiosk next to school. But most of us...
by Soundarya | Apr 13, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
What does it mean to learn? What happens in your brain when you learn a new word, play a new instrument, or learn to shoot a basketball through the hoop? If we all have the same three-pound gooey jelly of a brain, why is someone able to learn faster than the...
by Soundarya | Mar 20, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
Using Notion and Roam for GTD, Zettelkasten, and Progressive Summarization. When I think about my childhood, only a few memories come to mind. Practicing for a dance show that my friends and I hosted every year for our 20 or so neighbors in a suburb....
by Soundarya | Mar 13, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
I never imagined living through a global pandemic like the coronavirus. I was too young to remember both the dot com and the housing collapse (or maybe the effects of it weren’t too pronounced in my location in India). But the past few months, and more so the...
by Soundarya | Mar 4, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
How our brain has evolved in consuming and retrieving information. Recently, I was reading about the day in the life of celebrities. Don’t ask me why. It led me to reach two conclusions: first, I wouldn’t ever want to be a celebrity’s assistant, and...
by Soundarya | Feb 17, 2020 | General Information, Neuroscience
How the rise of information overload gave rise to FOMO and the need for mindful consumption. What does Tim Urban and William Zinsser have in common? They both can take a piece of extremely convoluted topic and produce something that is a joy to read by...
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