Brain

06/02/2018 - 12:37

We are therefore easily able to put ourselves in Offred’s shoes and feel empathy towards her. It taps into our very human capacity to share... →

18/01/2018 - 14:13

Benefits of Writing For Your Brain and Body Expressive writing has been linked with psychological benefits, such as improved mood,... →

09/01/2018 - 16:03

Her dismissiveness wasn’t a surprise. By any measure, Freud was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Following his... →

11/12/2017 - 18:23

As Mann dived into the topic of boredom, she found that it was actually “very interesting.” It’s certainly not pointless. Wijnand van... →

14/10/2017 - 13:21

Animators such as Hayao Miyazaki, Walt Disney and the people at Pixar Studios are masterful at imagination, but they’re only creating a... →

06/10/2017 - 16:14

Some of the answers to art’s mysteries can be found in the realm of science. Art is considered the domain of the heart, but its... →

05/10/2017 - 12:10

Grey considers aging an engineering problem. The human body is a machine, he told me in the following interview, and like any machine, it... →

11/09/2017 - 14:54

They may have been looking too closely. When it comes to the neuroscience of learning, zeroing in on synapse action misses the forest for... →

15/08/2017 - 19:08

This is the tyranny of sleep. Every animal on the planet is a junkie hooked on its restorative charms. Scientists have shown that if you... →

11/08/2017 - 12:37

In Planet of the Apes, Pierre Boulle’s 1963 novel upon which the films are based, space traveler Ulysse Mérou is stranded on a... →

21/06/2017 - 12:46

But our personalities don’t only show themselves in our long-term success and well-being. They also correlate with the kind of things we... →

12/06/2017 - 16:38

Newton, meanwhile, bragged about the benefits of celibacy. When he died in 1727, he had transformed our understanding of the natural world... →

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