mind
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... →
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... →
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... →
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... →
26/11/2016 - 13:19
If you are meeting some friends for lunch, your prospective memory reminds you to turn up on the right day, but you can also picture... →
25/11/2016 - 18:40
The human brain has nearly 100,000 times as many neurons as the bee brain, yet the rudiments of many of our most valued behaviours can be... →
04/11/2016 - 16:44
We are talking in the living room of his son Victor, who is a mathematician at the University of Oxford, during a flying visit from his... →
23/10/2016 - 13:59
These are not rare events. Every time you have a conversation, you are inviting someone to ghost-write bits of your autobiography. It... →