The human condition, with complimentary breakfast.

Notes on food, status, survival, and the absurd business of being human. A former creative director on what we eat, what we want, and what happens around the table. Click to read A TABLE FOR NOBODY, a...

You have the same nerve endings, the same fingers, and the same skin. But you cannot tickle yourself. The reason reveals something your brain is doing every second of your life, predicting everything before it happens, and filtering out what it already knows is coming.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari You have the same nerve endings, the same fingers, and the same skin. But you cannot tickle yourself. The reason reveals something your brain is doing every second of your life, predicting everything before it happens, and filtering out what it already knows is coming.

Every time you access a memory, you are not pressing play on a recording. You are rebuilding it from fragments, filling gaps with what seems plausible, and storing the reconstruction as fact. Your brain has been doing this your entire life without telling you.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari Every time you access a memory, you are not pressing play on a recording. You are rebuilding it from fragments, filling gaps with what seems plausible, and storing the reconstruction as fact. Your brain has been doing this your entire life without telling you.

You apologise too much. You remember embarrassing moments from twenty years ago but forget where you put your keys. You check your phone for no reason and feel worse after venting. None of this is a character flaw. It is just how the human brain works. Simon De Lafronde and Marco Bellinari translate the science of human behaviour into stories that make you understand yourself a little better, and other people a lot more. #humanbehaviour #psychologyfacts #socialpsychology #brainscience

You have told yourself you will stop in five minutes. You have told yourself that many times. The problem is not your willpower. The problem is that the scroll was designed by people who study exactly how to defeat it.

econopass.com · Simon De Lafronde You have told yourself you will stop in five minutes. You have told yourself that many times. The problem is not your willpower. The problem is that the scroll was designed by people who study exactly how to defeat it.

You remember the first item on the list. You remember the last. Everything in the middle is gone. This is not a flaw in your memory. It is a feature, and psychologists named it a century ago.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari You remember the first item on the list. You remember the last. Everything in the middle is gone. This is not a flaw in your memory. It is a feature, and psychologists named it a century ago.

econopass.com · Marco Bellinari Multitasking is not a skill. It is a myth your brain invented to make you feel productive. What you are actually doing has a name, and the cost is measurable.

Multitasking is not a skill. It is a myth your brain invented to make you feel productive. What you are actually doing has a name, and the cost is measurable.