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All You Can Eat (Score: 2 out of 5)
Visual | Taste | Focus
Posted on 12/04/2005
An interesting remnant from the time when food was scarce and survival depended on one’s ability to survive in times of famine against all odds, continues to manifest itself today. In times past, ...
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Delayed Satiation (Score: 3 out of 5)
Taste | Drug
Posted on 12/04/2005
This mindhack describes the delay in feeling full after eating. Specifically, this exists because of the delay in metabolism, and especially around the biochemical mechanism for signaling from the...
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False Randomness (Score: 2.75 out of 5)
Analytical | Creative
Posted on 12/04/2005
People are notoriously bad at being truly random or spontaneous, perhaps because stability may have been an advantage in societies. An obvious way to illustrate this is to ask someone to make two ...
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Social Bidding War (Score: 4 out of 5)
Emotional | Social
Posted on 12/04/2005
In social situations, ego and saving face frequently outweigh rationality. This manifests itself in many ways, and frequently leads to escalating problems, disagreements, or emotional outbreak. In...
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Stimulating Creativity (Score: 1.33 out of 5)
Visual | Creative | Focus
Posted on 01/20/2005
The mind tends to settle into ruts. Techniques for changing the way the mind thinks go so far, because the mind is not truly random. Use a stopwatch, set for 1 hour plus or minus some minutes, and...
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