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People believe that slow and deliberative thinking is inherently superior to fast and intuitive thinking. The truth is more complicated.

This list of leadership training topics is designed to help businesses navigate the times and prepare for the future. 

Brian C. Muraresku, New York Times best-selling author of “The Immortality Key,” unpacks ancient evidence for the widespread ritual use of psychoactive plants.

When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.

The experience of life flashing before one’s eyes has been reported for well over a century, but where’s the science behind it?

Talking to yourself seems to yield real benefits, from boosts in cognitive performance to improved emotional regulation.

If you think everyone around you is terrible, the joke may be on you.

It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.

Is the quest to upload human consciousness and ditch our meat puppets the future—or is it fool’s gold?

Questioning isn’t just a way to get the right answer — it’s also a means for sustaining relationships and creative thinking.

Brain-based technologies of spiritual enhancement can induce mystical experiences in many people on demand. What does this mean for spirituality today?

Research suggests that emotional intelligence is more vital for success than IQ.

Achieving values and pursuing growth is the real secret to a fulfilled life.

Our social instincts can lead us to adopt models of desire that might not serve our interests.

Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.

According to Sigmund Freud, our revulsion at taboos is an attempt to suppress a part of us that actually wants to do them.

Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with “science.”

Spoiler alert: Everyone dies.

Here’s your gateway to enjoying the best of literature.

We are generally taught that there is an arc of history — an inevitable path of progress that leads to modern society. Maybe it isn’t true.

War is peace.

Plants are very sensitive to touch, with research showing that touching a plant can change its genome and launch a cascade of plant hormones.

Understanding Mezirow’s theory of transformative learning can help you become a catalyst of change.

Research shows that psilocybin leads people away from materialism and toward transcendentalism. Apparently, mushrooms teach metaphysics.

Music is often labelled a “universal language,” and according to the philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer, there is a good reason for that.

Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.

In some Asian countries, what’s in your blood may influence your social status.

New study suggests the placebo effect can be as powerful as microdosing LSD.

In a new book, an MIT scholar examines how game-theory logic underpins many of our seemingly odd and irrational decisions.

Ancient humans may have evolved to slumber efficiently — and in a crowd.