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Joel Frohlich

neuroscientist and writer
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Joel’s science writing for a general audience has appeared on the websites of publications such as The Atlantic, Nautilus, Psychology Today, Aeon, and Motherboard. He is a former editor-in-chief for Knowing Neurons. Through his writing activities, Joel has had the privilege of visiting the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, attending press conferences at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, and interviewing researchers such as Donald Hoffman (author of the The Case Against Reality) and Justin Feinstein (expert on float tank therapy), as well as individuals with synesthesia, for Knowing Neurons.

As of July 2024, you can find Joel’s newest writing on his Substack newsletter, Something It’s Like.


When does the first spark of human consciousness ignite?

Read on Psyche.co

How a Total Eclipse Alters Your Psyche

Read on Nautil.us

Could an Industrial Civilization Have Predated Humans on Earth?

Read on Nautil.us

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My Out-of-Body Experience

Read on Nautil.us

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Frames of Consciousness

Read on Aeon.co

Read on GeneticLiteracyProject.org

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Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious

Read on Nautil.us

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Should You Get an AI Nanny for Your Child?

Read on Nautil.us

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Down with the larks: on the virtues of sleeping like a sloth

Read on Aeon.co

Read on BigThink.com

Read on CreativityPost.com

Read on Qrius.com

Read on BlueZones.com

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

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Life in Hollow Earth

Read on Aeon.co

Featured on RealClearScience.com

Featured on The Academic Minute radio show

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Image generated with artificial intelligence using Midjourney

Why we can stop worrying and love the particle accelerator

Read on TheAtlantic.com

Read on Motherboard.vice.com

Read on Aeon.co

Read on BigThink.com

Read on Qz.com (Quartz) 

Read in Italian/Leggi in italiano Motherboard.vice.com/it

 

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Pikachu Has Hijacked Your Brain’s Reward System

Read on TheAtlantic.com

Read on Aeon.co

Read on TheWire.in

Read in Turkish on Medium.com

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The fugue of life: why complexity matters in neuroscience

Read on Aeon.co

Read on CreativityPost.com

Read in Turkish on Medium.com

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Are Children With Angelman Syndrome Really Happy?

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

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How to Build a Consciousness Detector

Read on blog.oup.com (Oxford University Press)

Read on PsychologyToday.com

 Jordan M. Lomibao/Unsplash

Jordan M. Lomibao/Unsplash

How Floating in Darkness Takes the Body off the Mind

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Image generated with AI (DALLE-2)

Image generated with AI (DALLE-2)

What Is Reality? An Interview with Donald Hoffman

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Giu Vicente on Unsplash

Giu Vicente on Unsplash

The Rhythm of Detachment

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Image by Emile Guillemot

Image by Emile Guillemot

Knowing Neurons Visits the Large Hadron Collider: Interview with Dr. André David

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Selfie at CERN

Selfie at CERN

So that's what the claustrum does!

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Image by Timothy Dykes

Image by Timothy Dykes

Chaos Rules All

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

 Artwork by Jooyeun Lee, adapted from  photograph  by Luc Viatour.

Artwork by Jooyeun Lee, adapted from photograph by Luc Viatour.

Schizophrenia in a Vial? The Story of Ketamine

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

  Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Reverse Engineering the Brain

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on CreativityPost.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

  Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

What is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on BrainFacts.org

Read on TherapyRoute.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

  Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Learning from Disorder: The Paradox of Information in the Brain

Read on PsychologyToday.com

Read on CreativityPost.com

Read on KnowingNeurons.com

  Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

Image by Jooyeun Lee, Senior Graphic Designer at Knowing Neurons

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Are Children With Angelman Syndrome Really Happy?
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How Floating in Darkness Takes the Body off the Mind
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What Is Reality? An Interview with Donald Hoffman
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The Rhythm of Detachment
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Knowing Neurons Visits the Large Hadron Collider: Interview with Dr. André David
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