Maybe the brain isn’t “classical” after all.
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Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.
While executive function matures between 18 and 20 years of age, the brain keeps changing long afterward.
With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that makes for a lot of stars. But not as many as you’d think.
Ancient helium-3 from the dawn of time leaks from the Earth, offering clues to our planet’s formation. A key question is where it leaks from.
An insect? A vermin? An unwanted animal? What in the world is Franz Kafka talking about?
Chloé Valdary — founder of Theory of Enchantment — explores two essential practices for generating the team “magic” that drove Apple under Steve Jobs.
Looking back on our planet’s early history offers a new (and less crazy) meaning for the idea of a “flat Earth.”
When battles raged in ancient cities, their rocks blazed so brightly that they could be reoriented according to Earth’s magnetic field.
Research has found that words are more accurately heard when accompanied by hand gestures.
The question of why the Universe is the way it is is an ancient one, and none of the answers we have come up with are satisfying.
Creative people are better able to engage brain systems that don’t typically work together.
This isn’t America’s first rodeo with monkeypox. In 2003, the virus swept across America thanks to a shipment of exotic animals.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
It has already been trialed in people and could give us a better way to analyze and stimulate the brain.
Colors can influence your emotions and behaviors, but “color psychology” yields no real insight into your personality.
Luck doesn’t fall from the sky. It’s about how you position yourself for life’s challenges.
Not all stress is created equal.
Why do you feel, think, and behave in the ways you do? Here are five frameworks psychologists use to answer those questions.
The power of play: our forgotten lifehack.
You would think that with all our technology, like the James Webb Space Telescope, we would know how big the Universe is. But we don’t.
You can’t control external threats, but you can manage how you prepare and respond to the risk.
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“The Da Vinci Code” popularized the idea that Christians stole much of their theology. It’s wrong, especially regarding Christmas.
To reap the benefits of digital technologies, we must contend with their addictive designs.
As Abraham Lincoln famously said, “If you want to test a man’s character, give him power and a plate of cookies.” (Something like that.)
He couldn’t identify the numbers 2 through 9. But strangely, he could still see ones and zeros.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
We all employ heuristics to help us deal with the world. But when we make a hasty generalization, we risk making a big error in our thinking.
Some fascinating observations of K2-18b have come along with horrendous, speculative communications. There’s no evidence for oceans or life.