14No. fourteen
Why music gives you chills
That shiver down your spine during the perfect key change has a name — frisson — and it says something strange about how your brain predicts.
Welcome to the notebook
The Curiosity Notebook
Why We Can't Stop Wondering
Hi, and welcome in. This is my little corner of the internet for everything that fascinates me about the human brain — how it remembers, dreams, misfires, and makes you you. I write it all down in plain language, so you can wonder right alongside me.
Recent entries
13No. thirteen
The science of the earworm
Why songs get stuck on loop, why it's almost always the chorus, and the oddly effective trick for evicting one.
12No. twelve
Dopamine isn't the "pleasure chemical"
The internet got it wrong. What dopamine actually tracks is stranger, more useful, and quietly running your whole day.
About the notebook-keeper
Hi, I'm [your name].
I'm not a professor — I'm a professional over-thinker who fell hard for neuroscience and started writing things down so they'd finally make sense. This notebook is where I share what I find fascinating about the three pounds of tissue that make you you.
If a question here keeps you up at night too, then we're the same kind of curious — and you're in the right place.
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Curiosity about the brain, turned into something that helps people. This is a project close to my heart — I can't wait to share it.
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