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Month: August 2026

Fact Sleep paralysis is your body’s own safety catch, caught in the open The terror that sits on your chest has been reported in nearly every culture on Earth. 1 min read Fact A mirror can relieve pain in a limb that is gone The hand was amputated years ago. It was still clenched, and it still hurt. 1 min read Fact Splitting the brain can produce two centres of will One hand buttoned the shirt. The other unbuttoned it. 1 min read Fact The Dunning-Kruger effect is not quite what you think The most-shared psychology finding on the internet may be partly a statistical mirage. 1 min read Fact Sleep is when memory gets filed The night after learning does more work than the hour of learning. 1 min read Fact Your own name cuts through a noisy room You were not listening to that conversation. Something in you was. 1 min read Fact Some people genuinely cannot recognise faces Including, sometimes, their own in a mirror. 1 min read Fact Patient H.M. could not form a new memory for fifty years He read the same magazine daily and found it new every time. He also proved memory is not one thing. 1 min read Fact Testing yourself beats re-reading, and it feels worse The study method that feels most productive is the one that works least. 1 min read Fact Your brain is 2 per cent of your weight and 20 per cent of your energy bill Sitting perfectly still, thinking about nothing, it is the most expensive organ you own. 1 min read