For Day 3, we’re asking you to spend at least 20 minutes exercising for your brain. Go for a walk with your accountability ...

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Lynne Peeples is a science journalist in Seattle, Washington. Near the end of his first series of chess matches against IBM’s Deep Blue computer in 1996, the Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov ...

Learn more about the science behind the belief that we can “see” better while driving when we turn the music down. If you’ve ever reached for the volume knob while driving in difficult conditions, you ...