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Mind and Behavior
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Former Yale professor Dr. Morgan Levine shares 3 ways to change your diet to extend your life.
Rich data on the global state of our feathered friends presents plenty of bad news — but also some bright spots.
From cosmetic procedures to heart operations, the introduction of AI will create an ethical minefield.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline relaunched last year with a new number, yet few Americans are aware of the helpline and its purpose.
For linguists, the uniqueness of the Basque language represents an unsolved mystery. For its native speakers, long oppressed, it is a source of pride.
A series of charts shows how prevalent different mental illnesses are across the globe — but how we define them matters.
Descartes broke from the European philosophers who preceded him and devised a new way of considering humanity and the world.
Brain activity may be more like "ripples in a pond" rather than signals sent on a telecommunications network.
A study found that older adults who cannot balance on one foot for ten seconds have an 84% higher risk of death than those who can.
Neuroscientist and author Bobby Azarian explores the idea that the Universe is a self-organizing system that evolves and learns.
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Plato and Carl Sagan were wrong about the human brain, says a top neuroscientist.
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.
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Johns Hopkins professor Dr. Matthew Johnson answers 24 huge questions about psychedelics.
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.
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Your brain isn’t wired for happiness — but you can change that, explains Yale scientist Laurie Santos.
John Templeton Foundation
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
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You’ve heard about your "lizard brain." But what about the other two?
John Templeton Foundation