Your brain has stored associations that help it to quickly answer questions. Impact on biases?

Pretending To Live On Mars
In June 2023, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat.
Your brain has stored associations that help it to quickly answer questions. Impact on biases?
In June 2023, four volunteers will spend a year pretending to live on the red planet inside the Mars Dune Alpha habitat.
Have you ever wondered how big a bacteria can get before it’s no longer feasible to be a bacteria? Take 11 minutes to learn the answer.
Going without sleep for too long kills animals but scientists are only just starting to work out why.
Similar to ‘birding’ (i.e. birdwatching), ‘herping’ is the pursuit and observation of reptiles and amphibians.
If you want to know why ‘x’ is used to denote the unknown, it’s because you can’t say ‘sh’ in Spanish.
Need someone to give you time, money, advice or support? You need to know your pitch – a short snappy written or verbal communication. Watch these people attempt 1 min pitches.
“Singing” ice, a seal that sounds like it is in space, and a seismic airgun thundering like a bomb are some of the noises released by two marine acoustic labs.
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