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Human Behavior
What’s in a number? Only a vanishingly small slice of your life, it turns out.
How many stupid acts does it take to make a person stupid?
Writer and media theorist Bogna Konior connects cosmos and computer by reconsidering our eerily silent Universe.
In this excerpt from How to Live a Meaningful Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans discuss how flow transforms ordinary moments into deeply human experiences.
A conversation with investor and author Alex Morris on what Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger can teach us about focus, discipline, and building a life that lasts.
Here are three ways to do it better.
For many of us, our imperfect vision compels us to wear corrective lenses to see properly. Here's what everyone should know about LASIK.
It’s something to wrestle and live with, says behavioral scientist Arthur Brooks.
How deep is your kink?
When you enter someone's home, you learn how life is lived elsewhere.
Why the advertising legend — and author of Alchemy — believes that inefficiency can be genius and insects can unlock innovation.
When appraising human behavior, people tend to forgo the lessons of psychology in favor of assumption and anecdote.
Plato's cave metaphor illustrates the cognitive trap of ignorance, where we may be unaware of the limitations of our understanding.
Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
Reading this article would be such a millennial thing to do.
"In that conversation with Laozi’s text, I began to see the shape of my own life, the questions that opened seams, the patterns that pooled and shimmered."
Meet the scientist mixing mentalism with principles from positive psychology and the science of human potential.
How “Catastrophe and Social Change” (1920) became the first systematic analysis of human behavior in a disaster.
Hospice nurse Julie McFadden shares three examples where people hold off death, just for a bit.
Unraveling the subtle mechanics of luck can help us better steer the wheel of fortune.
Have you ever noticed how many things you interact with but can’t name? So did we.
The all-time record is Usain Bolt's 9.58 seconds, set in 2009. What is the fastest time, ultimately, for an ideal human body?
"Fasting...should not be demonized for simply suggesting that we take a break from eating once in a while."
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
"How long someone thinks about [a] problem is a really good proxy of how humans behave."
Just being a pessimist, cynic, or apathetic doesn't make you a nihilist.
If words are really only 7% of communication, then why would anyone need to learn a foreign language?
The Human Chronome Project finds that the average human sleeps for 9 hours but only works for 2.6 hours.
A human hand has the power to split wooden planks and demolish concrete blocks. A trio of physicists investigated why this feat doesn’t shatter our bones.