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The Language That Fit in 150 Words — What Damin Shows About What a Language Actually Encodes
A ceremonial language from Mornington Island used just 150 words to say everything a full vocabulary could — and what disappeared when the last speaker died.
Language
Jun 30
The Half-Second Before — What the Libet Experiments Actually Show About Choice
Libet’s famous 1983 experiment showed brain activity building half a second before people felt the urge to move — and got read as proof free will is an illusion. What that signal actually is turns out to be much stranger.
Neuroscience
Jun 30
The Map That Outlasts the Territory — On Phantom Limbs and the Brain’s Body
Ramachandran built a mirror box from cardboard and a saw. For patients who couldn’t unclench a phantom fist, it sometimes worked in minutes. What that reveals about how the brain constructs the body.
Neuroscience
Jun 28
The Body Knows First — What Interoception Actually Does
The sense that underlies emotion, guides decision-making, and tracks your body’s internal state every second. And what happens when Damasio’s patients lost it.
Neuroscience
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