Brain

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... →

02/06/2017 - 14:33

And the silence, as they say, is deafening. Sitting in here, it’s as if someone has turned the volume up inside of my head. I helplessly... →

02/06/2017 - 13:29

I believe, as do most people, that citizens of a democracy have a responsibility to remain informed, but I fear this constant deluge of... →

04/04/2017 - 12:54

Our fragile egos are partly to blame. We all want to meet our own expectations of ourselves, and so being critiqued – or even just the... →

02/04/2017 - 15:07

Our shoddy thinking about the brain has deep historical roots, but the invention of computers in the 1940s got us especially confused. For... →

30/03/2017 - 15:54

Despite all the fuss that has been made about the ‘bilingual advantage’, most researchers have moved on from the simplistic ‘is there an... →

29/03/2017 - 16:36

Musk is pushing hard to make Tesla automobiles the first production cars that can operate without any input from a human driver, a process... →

10/03/2017 - 15:28

Wisdom mustn’t be confused with intelligence. Although intelligence helps, you can be intelligent without being wise. The wise people... →

04/03/2017 - 13:32

As I was growing up in England in the latter half of the 20th century, the concept of intelligence loomed large. It was aspired to, debated... →

19/02/2017 - 15:31

As Horace Capron first travelled through Hokkaido in 1871, he searched for a sign of human life among the vast prairies, wooded glades and... →

02/01/2017 - 13:07

Our intelligence must have also been useful when we were evolving—presumably it helped us to be better hunters and avoid being hunted... →

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