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A nudge, as we will use the term, is any aspect of the choice architecture that alters people’s behavior in a predictable way without forbidding any options or significantly changing their economic incentives.

Cass R. Sunstein • Nudge: The Final Edition

Brain measurement goes mainstream: Bryan Johnson on "reading our minds" at Reflect Festival

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Although noninvasive means of scanning the brain from outside the skull are rapidly improving, the most practical approach to capturing every salient neural detail will be to scan it from inside. By 2030, “nanobot” (i.e., nano robot) technology will be viable, and brain scanning will be a prominent application. Nanobots are robots that are the size... See more

Ray Kurzweil • The Law of Accelerating Returns « the Kurzweil Library + collections

But without an incredible number of things happening around 14,000 years ago we probably wouldn’t be here talking.” “I’ll bite. What happened 14,000 years ago?” “In the middle of the Second Awakening the last great ice age ended and we had the perfect storm for human development.” “And?” “And, people were physically and mentally in position to take

Jeffery A. Martin • The Fourth Awakening

‘The biology, psychology, and customs that separate us from the apes – all these we owe to…

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Caroline Criado Perez • Invisible Women: the Sunday Times number one bestseller exposing the gender bias women face every day

We didn’t see an antelope 5km away and just start running after it. It was simply not worth the effort and would lead to a negative calorie outcome. We developed a perception of effort in order to avoid expending energy for no reason.

Shane Benzie • The Lost Art of Running: A Journey to Rediscover the Forgotten Essence of Human Movement

Turns out Chalmers went on to become a leading disrupter in consciousness research.

Sarah Wilson • first, we make the beast beautiful: A New Story About Anxiety

When they took out the downbeat—the strong pulse that makes us tap our feet—the newborn brains could predict where it should be (just like adults in the same study). This blew me away. The ability to perceive a musical beat, observed the 2009 study, is “functional at birth.”

Adriana Barton • Wired for Music: A Search for Health and Joy Through the Science of Sound

As philosopher of science Daniel Nicholson puts it, “The view that genes are the primary causal agents of all the phenomena of organismic life is not well supported by the findings of contemporary biology.” This much, at least, seems uncontroversial. And yet—and yet!—these correlations persist, and genotypic changes and phenotypic changes often tra