Companies like Facebook no longer depend on traditional economic exchanges to turn profit, so what does this mean for the consumer? When we're not paying money, we're paying in other ways, says Douglas Rushkoff.

That our atoms come from stars? You’ve got to think bigger than that! “The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It’s […]

We may be able to harness our own "data exhaust" to do great things.

Author-musician James McBride claims that James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, holds the secret to America’s race-torn soul.

You may not have heard, but agriculture is about to undergo a truly organic revolution. Indigo is one of many agriculture businesses that's researching how microbes can help increase crop yields even as our climate changes.

There are continuous gaps in consciousness when information is processed and you lose a sense of time says new research.

Too many people understand meditation as a way to banish worldly thoughts, but your thoughts will never go away, says Jon Kabat-Zinn. You've got to observe them like a scientist.

Neuroscience research shows that variety is important for healthy individuals and healthy societies. 

If you've ever wondered what happens to a tattoo, the answer's more surprising than you think.

A variation of the "the trolley problem" and how a psychopath weighs his or her options differently than others.

The Advent of Wearable Tech is here and it Pairs Perfectly with Medical Detection.   

What do Rachel Dolezal and the ethnic foodie scene have in common?

Is it about to get easier to trust our health to an app?

By devising the first truly brilliant physics experiment, Galileo gave us the equations of motion we still use today. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point […]

John Eliot Gardiner looks at what we know if Johan Sebastian Bach's argumentative life.

Just about everyone engages in office gossip, or at least entertains those who do. Yet we all recognize gossiping as unprofessional behavior. Something's deeply wrong at work, says Robert Kegan.

Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.

Without a boost, they’ll all come crashing down. “I’m here for several reason, Mr. Pepin, first of all for aid. When something tragic happens in our skies, we do our utmost […]

Kevin Dutton presents the warning signs that someone close to you is a psychopath.

We often now picture our minds in unsound ways. They’re built to resonate to poetry. We’ve all but lost the memory of poetry’s historic role in molding minds (that’s the unsung pretext of Plato’s poetry ban). Poetry is a key cognitive technology , so powerful it was the Internet of its time.