The brain is highly plastic — the more we do a particular action, the more we change its makeup. Money is a great motivator for habit-forming actions.
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It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a medieval airship!
More than mindless bloodshed, the gladiatorial games were organized sports. Gladiators were treated as world-class athletes, receiving superior diets and medical care.
This collection of learning and development quotes serves as a reminder of the meaning and purpose behind this important work.
Research consistently points to a set of leadership skills that are high-impact, difficult to develop, and not easily replicated by technology.
People who score high in "obsessive passion" can become rigidly consumed by ideological causes — sometimes dangerously so.
The rhetorical fallout is greater than the radioactive fallout.
Simple "nudges" to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
There's the textbook answer, then there's the real answer.
Famished, not famous: retrace Orwell’s hunger days, when he was one of the city’s legion of poor foreigners.
What creates our private, inner universes is still a mystery.
The history of cartography might have been very different if the Latin version of Muhammad al-Idrisi's atlas had survived instead of the Arabic one.
Aiming to unlock the secrets of his unconscious mind, Jung experimented with intensive daydreaming.
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
Various environmental phenomena can play tricks on our brain.
Imagine Flipper trained in the art of espionage.
This small phase 1 study suggests that CRISPR-engineered T cells are safe and potentially effective, but there is a long way to go.
But it's still challenging to build a 22,000-mile elevator.
"All moments past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
Thanks to protocols established centuries ago in Europe, world leaders no longer need to worry about having their heads bashed with an axe.
To what extent will our psychological vulnerabilities shape our interactions with emerging technologies?
What do you call it when the Earth shakes for three decades?
Assume we can make new thylacines, mammoths, diprotodons, or sabre-tooth cats. Great. Now where do we put them?
There are nearly 100 towns named "Troy."
The milestone puts us one step closer to ending the organ shortage.
Discover the ancient wisdom of not pushing the river.
The simulation hypothesis is fun to talk about, but believing it requires an act of faith.
Game theory is a unique combination of math and psychology. Its applications turn up everywhere, from nuclear war to Tinder to game shows.