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The world is big and complicated and full of noise…

Not just the buzzing, humming, tire screeching, siren squealing, clickety-clack type noise…

But informational noise of all sorts.

The news you read today,

the conversations you had,

conversations you didn’t have but over heard in passing…

advertisements, road signs, the temperature of the air,

thoughts you only half formed,

How you look in a mirror,

the feeling of your feet when putting on shoes,

And how often it is you put on shoes compared to

how infrequently you reflect on how nice it feels to take them off…

And at the center of all the complicated informational noise going on around you…

is your brain.

Some of the noise is interesting,

some of it isn’t,

what’s a brain to do…

A few things to keep in mind at all times,

wherever you are and whatever your brain happens to be doing…

Anything can be interesting if you ask the right question…

Every question has an answer…

And every moment is an opportunity to ask the right question…

And with that in mind,

we bring you a few moments of people asking the right questions

on a variety of interesting subjects here on

This Week in Science,

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