Ferris: The thing with dopamine that gets it going is change novelty. So if somebody's just droning on that classic like, you know, you guys have a better. For Ferris, viewers day off. There's this really drone like foreign teacher. But the changing it up, different activities,. You know, today we're going to do this. Tomorrow we're doing something else. Keeps it fresh, keeps it exciting. By the way, that actor was a former actual former speechwriter for Richard Nixon and his name is Ben Stein.
How do our brains learn? On this episode, Neil deGrasse Tyson and co-hosts Chuck Nice and Dave Bakker learn about learning at the Pocketlab Science Is Cool Virtual Unconference with neuroscientist Heather Berlin, PhD.
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