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Psychology says people who doodle while listening may sometimes retain information differently, here’s what their brain could be doing

People who doodle while listening may not necessarily be ignoring what is being said. In some situations, doodling can act as alow-demand attentional activity, especially when the main task feels boring or repetitive. However, in other cases, free-form doodling may compete for attention with the information a person is trying…

The Economic Times

Psychology says people who lower their voice when someone nearby lowers theirs may automatically follow social cues

People who naturally lower their voice when someone nearby does the same may be responding to a combination of social cue detection, vocal accommodation, conversational entrainment and unconscious mimicry. A change in another person’s voice can provide a subtle social signal that the brain quickly interprets. In response, your communication…

The Economic Times

Psychology says people who invent stories about strangers may naturally engage in social imagination

Inventing stories about strangers does not necessarily mean someone is nosy, judgmental or disconnected from reality. It may simply reflect the way social cognition, mentalizing and spontaneous thought work together, as the mind naturally tries to imagine other people’s experiences, intentions and possible stories.

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Psychology says people who notice who talks to whom at a gathering may be unconsciously mapping social networks

Someone who pays close attention to who talks to whom at a gathering may be engaging in a process psychologists have studied for decades: forming a mental map of the social network around them.

The Economic Times

Daily Word Search Game #097 (Aug 23, 2026)

Expand your vocabulary with today's Daily Word Search puzzle. Choose from Easy, Medium, or Hard difficulty levels and challenge yourself to find every hidden word in this fun and addictive word search game. New themed puzzles are added daily for word game and brain teaser fans alike. Entertainment

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Why Your NEET Preparation Strategy That Worked in Class 11 Fails in Class 12 and What to Do

The Method That Got You Here Will Not Get You ThereIn Class 11, the job is acquisition. You are meeting the sodium-potassium pump for the first time, seeing Newton's laws applied to pulleys, learning what a p-block element actually is. Reading a chapter twice, making neat notes, solving the back…

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3 Daily Mindset Habits UPSC Rank Holders Use to Survive Multi-Year Preparation Without Burnout

The Habit of Deliberate IncompletenessEvery UPSC topper who has spoken candidly about multi-year preparation says the same thing in different words: they stopped trying to finish the day feeling done. Chanakya wrote in the Arthashastra that a king who exhausts his treasury on a single campaign has no reserves for…

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What UPSC Toppers Do During Their Study Hours That Most Aspirants Are Not Doing

They read to question, not to finishMost aspirants treat a chapter as a task to complete. Toppers treat it as a problem to interrogate. Shubhra Ranjan, whose students have consistently placed in the top 100, has said in multiple interviews that the single habit separating serious candidates from successful ones…

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What Hindu Tradition Says About Recurring Dreams and the Karma They Are Trying to Resolve

The dreaming self has a nameYou wake from it again. The same house you no longer live in. The same exam you never failed. The same person you stopped calling years ago. The dream has no loyalty to logic, but it has extraordinary loyalty to you, it comes back, and…

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7 Science-Backed Reasons Yoga Nidra Gives Your Brain and Body More Restorative Rest Than a Nap

What yoga nidra actually does to your brainA regular nap keeps you in light NREM sleep or, if you go too long, pulls you into slow-wave sleep and leaves you groggy. Yoga nidra does something structurally different. EEG studies show that a guided yoga nidra session moves the brain into…

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Minnesota man admires a gorgeous truck in a grocery store parking lot, then slowly realizes his own brain left it behind: ‘Then it dawned on me…’

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'$200 Billion in Lost Market Cap': Alphabet Stock Rocked by Brutal AI Brain Drain and DeepMind Rumours

Alphabet's shares fell as key AI researchers left to form Discovery Loop, a new AI venture. Despite the departures, Google remains a founding investor, maintaining ties with the new company.

International Business Times UK

Psychology says people who bounce their feet to music without realizing it may be responding to rhythmic alignment

Bouncing your foot to music without consciously noticing it does not necessarily reveal anything unusual about your personality. It may simply be a natural example of rhythmic entrainment, in which the brain responds to the timing and rhythm of the music. As the music establishes a predictable pattern, the brain…

The Economic Times

Psychology says people who notice small spelling mistakes everywhere may have a different attentional filtering style

People who quickly notice small spelling mistakes may simply be showing how differently human attention can work. We do not take in the world as one continuous stream of information; instead, our attention selectively focuses on certain details while filtering out others.

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Why Some Parents Become Childlike As They Grow Older?

There comes a time when many people start noticing small changes in their parents. A mother who was always patient may suddenly get angry over little things, while a father who handled everything on his own may start asking for help with simple tasks. They may repeat the same question,…

The Economic Times

Psychology says people who check their phone after hearing someone else's notification may have developed a learned attention cue

Checking your phone after hearing someone else's notification can be a small but revealing example of howlearning, attention, and habit interact in everyday life. A familiar notification sound can instantly grab your attention because it stands out from surrounding sounds, while repeated experiences can teach your brain to associate that…

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'It's a no-brainer': How Danii raised $30,000 for critical cancer research

Danii couldn't have been happier watching her lustrous locks fall to the ground.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of rugby players win court battle for brain injury claims to proceed to trial

A judge has ruled that the claims can now proceed to trial

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Where's your head at? It's MusicRadar's Quiz of the Week #18!

Test your brains with our round-up of this week's hottest music news

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Sometimes The Internet Gets It Right, Here Are 63 Oddly Wholesome Images To Prove It

These moments just happened. Without filters and perfectly curated captions. They all made us stop scrolling, breathe a little slower, and remember that somewhere in the middle of all of it, good things are still happening every single day. No news, no discourse, no comment sections. Just this. Scroll through…

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A Boy Laughed at Nothing for Two Years, and His Brain Scan Came Back Completely Normal

An 8-year-old's laughing fits turned out to be gelastic seizures from the temporal lobe, not the hypothalamus, with a normal 1.5 Tesla MRI.

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You’ve Seen These 18 Things A Million Times, But Only A Few Can See Past The Distortion

If you think you’re good at recognizing everyday things, this quiz might put your brain to the test. 🧠These distorted images hide 18 familiar objects, but your eyes won’t be getting the clear picture they’re used to. The real question is: Can your brain fill in the missing details and…

The Independent UK

New dementia study challenges assumption that ‘every move counts’ for brain health

Overall, individuals engaging in higher levels of leisure-time physical activity had a 24% lower risk of dementia compared with the least active participants

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A Brain Surgeon Says Wear A Motorcycle Helmet. So Wear A Damn Helmet

Motorcycle helmets save lives and help prevent brain injuries. So why have helmet laws become another fight over personal freedom?

The Independent UK

What are the symptoms of Alzheimer’s – and how does the disease affect men and women differently?

Experts have spoken about the signs and symptoms and how people with Alzheimer’s can be better supported

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