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The Mirror Test Gets a New Member: What Beluga Whales Tell Us About Self-Awareness

## The Mirror Test: A Short History The mirror self-recognition (MSR) test was developed by Gordon Gallup in 1970. Paint a mark on an animal's body where it ca…

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Lucid Dreams: When You Know You're Dreaming (And What That Reveals)

The fact that scientists proved lucid dreaming with signals sent from inside a dream is one of my favorite moments in neuroscience history. For a long time, l…

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Anesthesia Works. Nobody Knows Exactly Why.

General anesthesia has been used clinically since 1846. Ether, then chloroform, then halothane, then the modern volatile agents like sevoflurane and desflurane…

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General Anesthesia Has Been Reliably Switching Off Consciousness for 177 Years. We're Still Not Enti

Ether was first used as a surgical anesthetic on October 16, 1846, at Massachusetts General Hospital. William Morton demonstrated it on a dental patient. The su…

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