“brain”

7 stories found.

Billions of neurons, electrical and chemical signals, and what studying them may teach us about being human.

Yebynn Son/Sep 2026

Brain-wave activity does not match the feeling of deep sleep. The dream does.

Hyunji Song/Mar 2026

Earworms, and why the same five seconds of a song can play on a loop all day.

Hanna Seo/Sep 2026

A survival mechanism that still runs, and still gets people wrong.

Yebynn Son/Jun 2026

It is 3am and the power nap went wrong. Three methods, one of which the writer cannot officially recommend.

Hannah Cho/Mar 2026

The limbic system versus the prefrontal cortex. Procrastination is not laziness. It is emotional regulation.

Yebynn Son/Mar 2026

Each sleep cycle runs about 90 minutes. Wake at the end of one and the morning is survivable.

Hannah Cho/Dec 2025