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6 pieces

First principles

Starts from scratch and builds a single idea about the brain from the ground up, with no jargon assumed.
3 pieces

Paper breakdown

Takes a single real study and walks through what the researchers did, what they found, and what it actually means.
2 pieces

Myth-busting

Takes a popular claim about the brain and checks it against the actual research.