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Month: August 2026

Fact Shuffle a deck properly and you have almost certainly made history That exact order has, in all likelihood, never existed before in the history of the world. 1 min read Fact Chess has more possible games than the universe has atoms Not more positions. More games. And it is not close. 1 min read Fact Anticipating a loss hurts more than the equivalent gain pleases Which is why you defend what you have harder than you chase what you want. 1 min read Fact The tip of the tongue is knowledge without access You know the first letter, the rhythm, the number of syllables. You cannot reach the word. 1 min read Fact Some people taste words and see sounds in colour For a small share of the population, Tuesday is green, and it always has been. 1 min read Fact Your sense of where your body is can be hijacked in minutes Stroke a rubber hand in view while hiding the real one, and the rubber one starts to feel like yours. 1 min read Fact Deja vu may be a memory system checking its own work The feeling is not that you remember. It is that you feel you should. 1 min read Fact The invisible gorilla walked through and nobody saw it Counting basketball passes made half the audience blind to a person in a gorilla suit. 1 min read Fact Learning to read physically rewires the adult brain Adults taught to read late show changes visible on a scan. 1 min read Fact Bilingual people make colder moral choices in their second language The same dilemma, the same person, a different answer - depending on the language it was posed in. 1 min read