Shorts

Three short lessons on the amygdala under pressure, why healing can feel like getting worse and five public figures associated with nervous system awareness.

Five short lessons on how the voice in your head works, from noticing thoughts and distanced self-talk to ancient theories of consciousness and the promises you make to yourself.

Short lessons on linguistic relativity, the film Arrival, time and memory across languages, emotional granularity and tacit knowledge.

Three short lessons on the block universe, Wheeler's participatory universe and how clocks and time zones were measured and decided.

Three short lessons on how memory works beneath awareness: the Zeigarnik effect, childhood amnesia and acquired savant syndrome.

Two short lessons on metacognition and drifting, and why noticing the thinker and choosing a direction matter.

Two short lessons on the signs of a nervous system stuck on high alert and three simple ways to help the body stand down.

Eight short thought experiments on personal identity, from Parfit's reductionism and the teleporter to the Ship of Theseus, The Egg and fate.

Short lessons on the history of logos and glamour, theories of where language came from, Zipf's law and what translation changes.