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Marshall Brain, educator and founder of the popular edutainment company HowStuffWorks, died last week at the age of 63. Born in California, Brain moved to Raleigh in the 1980s to complete a master ...

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We've all been there. Moments after leaving a party, your brain is suddenly filled with intrusive thoughts about what others were thinking. "Did they think I talked too much?" "Did my joke offend ...