Matt Davis

Matt Davis

Matt Davis writes stories about science, technology, bizarre anecdotes from history, esoteric odds and ends, bleak but nevertheless fascinating environmental issues, and whatever else grabs his easily grabbed attention.

This unsettling new understanding of vegetative patients raises medical ethics issues.
Researchers from UCLA invent a device that generates electricity from a rather unusual source.
Storytelling has been a human tradition for thousands of years and for good reason: It holds a powerful influence over our psychology.
Without a country to belong to, many of these people lack some of the most fundamental rights.
Gail Bradbrook, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, called for a mass psychedelic act of civil disobedience in protest of drug criminalization.
The term "self-actualization" is often bandied about on the web, but how does one go about becoming self-actualized really?
During World War II, the U.S. incarcerated over 100,000 Japanese Americans in concentration camps throughout the West.