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Essentials: Tools to Improve Your Focus & Concentration

In this Huberman Lab Essentials episode, I explain how the neurochemicals epinephrine, acetylcholine and dopamine contribute to focus and concentration. I discuss tools for improving attention, including sleep, sound, structured work sessions, nutrition, caffeine and deliberate cold exposure. I also describe a brief daily meditation and visual focus exercises that train your ability to refocus when attention drifts. Additionally, I discuss the potential benefits and limitations of supplements...

United States
Culture

Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity

In his weekly catecheses on Vatican II, Pope Leo is now discussing Gaudium et Spes, one of the more controversial conciliar documents. Critics charged that, by revising its earlier. The post Vatican II Didn’t Kneel to Modernity appeared first on First Things

Global
Culture

Shakespeare Under Stalin’s Shadow

”We wish that we could pass this play over, and say nothing about it. All that we can say must fall far short of the subject; or even of what we ourselves conceive of it.” So William Hazlitt, in Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, registered his awe at King Lear. The post Shakespeare Under Stalin’s Shadow appeared first on First Things

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Society

Who Killed the Clancy Children?

This article will appear in the November issue. After a Massachusetts jury failed to convict Lindsay Clancy of strangling her three small children to death with exercise bands, a. The post Who Killed the Clancy Children? appeared first on First Things

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Geopolitics

Who lost Afghanistan?

The article explores the complex factors and key players involved in the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, examining the implications of the decision and its impact on the region's future.

Afghanistan