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Human Behavior
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.
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Mating, monogamy, and maximizing your sexual potential explained by 3 sex experts.
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“Forget about essences.” Philosopher Daniel Dennett on how modern-day philosophers should be more collaborative with scientists if they want to make revolutionary developments in their fields.
Kahneman was a world-changing psychologist — even with his lesser known ideas on life satisfaction.
More than 90% of ticks that bit treated volunteers were dead within 24 hours.
There are only a precious few minutes of totality during even the best solar eclipses. Don't waste yours making these avoidable mistakes.
The secret sauce of humor is incongruity. AI knows this as well as we do.
Genes are sometimes called the “blueprint of life,” but that doesn't make them the behavioral playbook.
A simple dice game shines a bit of light on the psychology of regret.
Some of the world's most satisfied societies are poor, small, and remote.
We don’t yet know if these strange “obelisks” are helpful or harmful.
The world’s highest mountain is also the world’s highest cemetery, with some bodies serving as creepy landmarks for today’s climbers.
Survey data suggests that our bodily perceptions of love extend far beyond the heart.
The young and healthy were not just as likely to die as the old and frail, according to a new analysis.
The flavor is "simultaneously fascinating and... abusive."
In a world without clocks, people used common activities in place of time units. How long it took you to go to the toilet mattered.
Sweet, bitter, salty, sour. These are the four basic tastes we were taught in grade school. But there is a fifth: umami. And it's everywhere.
The anxieties underpinning the Great Resignation were simmering for a long time. Here’s a solution.
