Persuasion Articles of the Week

"Brained" by Jose, Flickr, CC-By-2.0
“Brained” by Jose, Flickr, CC-By-2.0

Maybe You, Too, Could Become A Super Memorizer

The brain! Its powers can change and grow, depending what you focus on.

Emotional Intelligence Has a Scary Dark Side, Says Science

Being in-tune with others can increase your stress, which increases the level of cortisol in your body. That’s bad.

Elon Musk’s Billion Dollar Crusade to Stop the A.I. Apocalypse

We’re already cyborgs. The next upgrades could kill us.

The right music in a restaurant can make you linger for dessert. The wrong kind will make you leave

The music that infiltrates your subconscious affects your mood and hunger.

A linguistic anthropologist explains why, um, “filler words” are OK to use

They’re ok to use. They also lessen your persuasiveness if you require long sentences to make a point. Use your tools wisely.