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You know the feeling. One article becomes seventeen tabs. A quick Google turns into an hour-long deep dive. By the end of the week you've learned more about something than you ever expected to.

Everyone does this. Your friend is deep into jazz history. Your colleague keeps finding fascinating things about Byzantine architecture. Someone online just posted a thread about mycology that you need to share with three people.

Goodreads gave readers a home. Letterboxd gave film lovers one. Stem is where the rest of your curiosity lives.

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Create a stem for anything you're diving into. Add the articles, videos, and papers that shaped your thinking. Your stems are public, so anyone curious about the same things can find you, follow along, and contribute their own finds.

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Cognitive science

@amrith · 14 finds · public

How memory consolidation actually worksnature.com
The predictive coding frameworkaeon.co
Embodied cognition: a reading listphilpapers.org
The Default Mode Network, explainedsci.am
Against Behaviorism (Chomsky, 1959)mit.edu

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🎵Jazz lineage·@jamie·2h ago
Miles Davis and the Birth of Coolnpr.org
The Anatomy of a Jazz Standardjstor.org
🏛️Byzantine architecture·@claudia·5h ago
The Hagia Sophia's engineering secretsbbc.com
Pendentives and the dome problemarch.edu
When Constantinople became Istanbulhistory.com

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