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You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded...

Talks at Google 13/08/15 : Award-winning science journalist Anil Ananthaswamy visits Google to talk about his latest book, "The Man Who Wasn't There: Investigations into the Strange New Science of the Self". The book describes how scientists and philosophers are trying to discern what constitutes the self – Is the self purely anecdotal or circumstantial, or is it grounded in something biological or neurological ? How is it created ? Can it be destroyed ?..