The Marginalian
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Reads tagged with “psychology”

Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon
Christ to Coke: How Image Becomes Icon

How Milton Glaser subverted Steve Jobs, or what the Mona Lisa has to do with Einstein’s theory of relativity.

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From Philosophy to Art, 10 Essential Books on Protest
From Philosophy to Art, 10 Essential Books on Protest

What Billie Holiday has to do with Burma, growing your own marijuana, and the American Revolution.

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How the Difference Between Your Experiencing Self and Your Remembering Self Shapes Your Happiness
How the Difference Between Your Experiencing Self and Your Remembering Self Shapes Your Happiness

Beneath the biases of intuition, or how your experiencing self and your remembering self shape your life.

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The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection
The Divided Brain, Animated: Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness and Connection

A hemispheric history of the making of the Western world, or why abstraction is necessary for empathy.

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Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each
Six Famous Thought Experiments, Animated in 60 Seconds Each

From Ancient Greece to quantum mechanics, or what a Chinese room and a cat have to do with infinity.

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You Are Not So Smart: A Field Guide to the Brain’s Guile
You Are Not So Smart: A Field Guide to the Brain’s Guile

The science of why 600 Facebook “friends” are an illusion, or why brand loyalty is a product of the ego.

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What Is a Person?
What Is a Person?

What remix culture and philosophy have to do with personhood in the age of synthetic biology.

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Eli, No! An Illustrated Antidote to Perfectionism
Eli, No! An Illustrated Antidote to Perfectionism

What chasing squirrels has to do with reclaiming childhood from the grip of perfectionist parenting.

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I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words via 200 Quotes
I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words via 200 Quotes

A first-hand tour of the heart and mind of one of our era’s greatest visionaries, culled from 30 years of wisdom.

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7 Must-Read Books on Time
7 Must-Read Books on Time

What the second law of thermodynamics has to do with Saint Augustine, landscape art, and graphic novels.

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