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Mind and Behavior
4mins
From Kim Kardashian’s stories to your friend’s Facebook post: social media is designed to keep you jealous.
Why does hearing sad music feel so good?
The internet has made it easier than ever to keep in touch with our exes. For people in relationships, that can cause problems.
The early colonists thought they were being pulled by God into a void left by plague.
This map of Hutterite colonies in North America says something about religion and evolution — and more precisely, speciation.
Scientists want to use dream hacking devices to improve your creativity and memory.
Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.
Scientific pluralism is the notion that some questions must be approached from many angles. How can we integrate these scientific models?
Like it or not, we are the descendants of busybodies.
5mins
What would you do differently if you listened to your true desires?
Communication with home will be difficult on long-haul space flights. The longer this isolation goes on, the more detached a crew becomes.
Despite the wide diversity of spider species, most orb-weavers seem to follow the same playbook when building their webs.
Many still cling to the idea that we live in a deterministic Universe, despite the nature of quantum physics. Now, the "least spooky" interpretation no longer works.
The belief that lying is rampant in the digital age just doesn’t match the data.
Social conflicts can leave molecular marks on animals, according to recent research on the ant species Harpegnathos saltator.
To overcome burnout, we need to change how we think about the relationship between dignity and work, argues Jonathan Malesic.
Does the voice in your head castigate the voice coming out of a recording device?
8mins
“The Universe is swarming with scapegoats, yet none of us think we have any of our own.”
A new control system, demonstrated using MIT’s robotic mini cheetah, enables four-legged robots to jump across uneven terrain in real-time.
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, "Trotsky" still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.
The most momentous and significant events in our lives are the ones we do not see coming. Life is defined by the unforeseen.
Many have argued that free will is an illusion, but science does not support that.
Learning styles are supposed to help learners take ownership of their education, but research doesn’t back up this well-intentioned myth.
A recent study illuminated surprising differences in how men and women seek help when struggling with relationships.
We seem to be wired to calculate not the shortest path but the “pointiest” one, facing us toward our destination as much as possible.
Daylight saving time was first implemented during the first world war to take advantage of longer daylight hours and save energy. While this made a difference when we heavily relied on coal […]
Winner takes all, losers die, and participants have no choice but to play.
We pretend to be in control, but we have frighteningly little knowledge upon which to base our life’s decisions.
The highest earning Myers-Briggs personality type? ENTJ.