Derek Beres

Derek Beres

Derek Beres is a freelance writer. Based in Portland, Oregon, he has served in senior editorial positions at a number of tech companies and has years of experience in health, science, and music writing. He is the co-host of the Conspirituality podcast and co-author of Conspirituality: How New Age Conspiracies Became a Health Threat.

Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.
A new study in Spain displays the powerful effects of empathy.
Creating more neural circuits through visual landmarking not only benefits your spatial orientation, it could keep Alzheimer's disease at bay.
Nematodes demonstrate that neurons can influence offspring's genetics.
That's five more unicorns than the previous three years combined.