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Context shapes perception . :  Joshua Bell decided to play a free impromptu concert in a Washington, D . C . , subway station . 9 .   when placed in the context of the D . C . subway . . his music fell upon deaf ears . Almost nobody knew they were walking past one of the most talented musicians in the world .     The mind takes shortcuts . . informed by our surroundings to make quick and sometimes erroneous judgments . .   But when framed in the context of a concert hall, he can charge $1000 bucks per seat .   In times of such chaos and confusion, before reading any news or believing something being said take a note of a brain bias that's engraved within us called the Framing effect .   Our mind tricks us into thinking that we thought about a topic thoroughly, but Infact what we did was just take a shortcut and believe what we already believed in our mind .

If ever there were an unlikely candidate for scientific greatness . . it would have been Mary Somerville .   She won awards in mathematics . . learned several languages . . how to paint and play the piano . . and was the first women elected to the Royal Astronomical Society .   born into a poor Scottish family . . when higher education was not seen as proper for a lady . . she faced even larger obstacles . . with household duties and expectations taking precedence over any kind of self-education . despite those obstacles, Somerville’s accomplishments were vast .     When young . . she was put to bed and denied a candle for reading . . she would mentally work through mathematics . . While still breastfeeding her child . . she devoted “an hour of study to that science” every morning .   Even during her greatest achievement, the translation and expansion of Laplace’s Traité de mécanique céleste, she had to carry out all th...