40% of world’s population lives on less than $2 per day.

Less than a cup of coffee, and 1/10 of a starbucks coffee.

Anxiety is fear in the absence of threat.

Fear in the presence of a threat is called the News.

Classical conditioning, Pioneered by Ivan Pavlov, states that Pairing two stimuli changes the response to one of them.

If your wife walks in wearing new lingerie while a McDonalds commercial is playing, you're probably ordering a Big Mac.

Pride gained from group membership is not always beneficial.

Especially with mountain climbers, since pride comes before a fall.

Steel Trap Memory:

Retains every bit of information, however details are mangled.

Evolution is the process by which the complexity of all types of biology comes to be.

Creation is the process by which you abandon rational thought and ignore facts.

Anterior cingulate cortex: Ability to act, speak and think.

So that's what's missing from most politicians.

The hypothalamus makes up less than 1% of brain mass.

Yet is far less influential in Bernie Sanders.

Reliability exists when a test measures consistently what it is trying to measure.

The test of me dumping a bucket of water on my wife every morning to make sure she wasn't replaced with a robot is 100% reliable.

Cingulate corpus is wrapped around inside the cortex. “Cingulate” (is Latin for), ‘ring’ or ‘belt.

As the great philosopher quoted, If you like it you should put cingulate on it...

In most humans, the left side is specialized for language.

It's where you keep your swear words.

People recall more words after survival encoding.

It’s why husbands remember to take the trash out next time.

Memories are formed by the hippocampus.

Amazing memories are formed by parties off campus.

Neuromodulatory Chemical Pathways: Each begins from tiny clusters of neurons (10s of thousands) yet are able to directly or indirectly influence billions of neurons over the brain.

They’re like YouTube influencers, except they’re not constantly yelling at you to smash that subscribe button (bro).

Men are more likely to seek multiple sex partners, especially for short-term encounters.

Because apparently if you are seeking multiple sex partners, all of your encounters will definitely be short-term.

Empiricism: Belief that accurate knowledge can be acquired through observation; essential element in scientific method.

Subject to abuse in political arguments on Facebook.

Corpus Collosum.

Name of one of my students' heavy metal band.

Call me a zombie if you may.

Since I too have a passion for brains.

There is no evidence to support procrastinators do their best work under pressure.

Although I could be wrong since I just am reading this too.

Critical thinking: Involves asking tough questions about whether evidence has been interpreted in an unbiased way, and about whether the evidence tells not just the truth, but the whole truth.

A practice not often adhered to in a court room.