HeyJaredWTF Just Happened? The Neuroscience of Living and Learning
I explore everyday events through a neuroscience lens with the goal of helping my reader better understand themselves by learning how their brains work.
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Episode 11: Why Brains Crave Different Genres of Entertainment (opens the original)
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According to the Motion Picture Association of America, the average American spent 38 hours a week watching television shows or movies, 18 hours listening to music, and 8 hours reading books, magazines or newspapers in 2007. Though the types of entertainment we consume as a society have changed over the past two decades (people now spend an average of 18 hours a week on social media and read less than 2 hours a week!), the total amount of time we entertain our brains is still surprisingly large.
Episode 10: The Lost Art of Long-Form Learning (opens the original)
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Wow—it might be the nostalgia talking, but this feels like one of the most important science communication moments I’ve been part of. I mean it. You see, I’ve been going through something… an identity defining moment in which I am thinking deeply about the “stuff” I’m putting out into the world, the time it exists in, and how it may be landing in the brains I get to connect with. Part of that “stuff” is this podcast I co-create with one of my favorite brains on the planet, my husband Andrea Stoc
Episode 9: What Dopamine Drives (opens the original)
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I hope no one minds if I start this note with a picture of baby cows. I swear it’s at least a little bit relevant. You see, yesterday, in the middle of a horsemanship clinic, I got the unexpected opportunity to connect with these two Miniature Highland Cows, Mac and Bowie , and it sent my dopamine through the roof. But what does that even mean? In this episode of Brains for Dinner , Andrea and I discuss how dopamine works in the brain and how it shapes the different ways people move around in th
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