thinking
16/03/2017 - 13:48
Once you learn about this mental habit – called confirmation bias – you start seeing it everywhere. This matters when we... →
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... →
02/02/2017 - 15:48
Louis Rosenberg thinks he has found a way to make us all a lot smarter. The secret to this superhuman intelligence? Bees. Rosenberg runs a... →
19/12/2016 - 15:32
But perception can be deceptive, and memory can be unreliable; even this kind of direct knowledge is not certain. And there are kinds of... →
05/10/2016 - 14:30
Learning math and then science as an adult gave me passage into the empowering world of engineering. But these hard-won, adult-age changes... →
07/08/2016 - 13:30
These are global trends but, living in the US, it seems to me that there is something particularly American to them. We have a long... →
07/08/2016 - 13:12
Why is it that we get motion sickness when we’re traveling in a plane or a car?
We haven’t evolved, obviously, to ride in vehicles; that’s... →
04/06/2015 - 15:45
What is now becoming clear is that some of our eye movements may actually reveal our thought process. Research published last year shows... →