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Mind and Behavior
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
The Foo Fighters are at the dead center of the map, so all the other bands are happier, sadder, angrier, or hornier.
You'll be able to sleep through a war.
“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”
John Templeton Foundation
Who’s afraid of utopia? AI doubters have cold feet. History can warm them.
It's a useful fiction — but it's still fiction.
Energy balance is the greatest arbiter of weight gain. Embrace the "oinker diet."
“Uitwaaien” is a popular activity around Amsterdam—one believed to have important psychological benefits.
One of Apple's key innovations serves as a psychological breakthrough, as its technology eliminates the isolating feel of headset use.
Numerous videos online show that squid undergo a dramatic color-changing effect after being stunned or killed.
A team of scientists has warned that marketers seek to advertise in our dreams. Will our sleep be commercialized against our wishes?
Dive into a realm where time, space, and even reality itself are put into question.
Once a cosmopolitan faith, Islam valued intellectualism and modernity. It was derailed by various geopolitical and religious forces.
A new study from Finland suggests that we all process the behavior of others using the same neural networks.
Spiritual experiences can be explained in terms of a highly evolved brain. But they also can be extremely meaningful.
John Templeton Foundation
Is blood the key to anti-aging, or just another lucrative biotech opportunity?
Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?
Fear of technology is not new. But we misunderstand its origin. In reality, we don't fear technology but each other.
ATD 2023 encouraged L&D professionals to create a world that works better – whether by rethinking old assumptions, optimizing how we gather, or creating new measures for success.
And why you, a non-expert, should absolutely not consider "explaining what you know" to an actual expert in the field.
Brain-computer interfaces could enable people with locked-in syndrome and other conditions to "speak."
From forgotten Hollywood movies to Frank Herbert’s "Dune," science fiction illustrates some of our deepest fears about technology.
Would you confess your crimes to a skeleton with "an unnatural ghastly glow"? One inventor thought you would.
"Groupthink" gets a bad rap. In reality, we need groups to focus our thinking and to build on the ideas of others.
John Templeton Foundation
Memory, responsibility, and mental maturity have long been difficult to describe objectively, but neuroscientists are starting to detect patterns. Coming soon to a courtroom near you?
Emotion dysregulation has been linked to unhealthy risk-taking, relationship challenges, and negative physical health outcomes.
Germans are masters of building cars, cooking brats — and sitting while peeing.
Meditation can put you in a wiser relationship with life.
Desperate times call for desperate measures.