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Sleepless nights filled with anxiety about the day’s events buzzing through our minds could be helped through a little mindful meditation every day.

The ABC News Correspondent discusses the myth of multitasking. “We literally neurologically cannot do more than one thing at a time,” says Harris.

To unwind they check out social media.

And does it have its own type of charge, like all the other forces? “Time is a sort of river of passing events, and strong is its current; no sooner […]

The author and neuroscientist argues that, despite its spooky etymology, there’s no better word than “spirituality” to describe the personal and intimate exploration of human consciousness.

While Sam Harris doesn’t necessarily condone their use, his experimentations with psychedelic drugs were indelible in the formation of his worldview and understanding of consciousness. 

In case you missed it from earlier this week, author Sam Harris visited Big Think to discuss his use of the word “spirituality” and the importance of reappropriating powerful terms.

Burnout recovery is a four-phase process that starts with identifying that some goals are simply not attainable.

We begin our careers full of optimism. We expect to encounter people who are eager to hear what we have to say — as our teachers were in school or […]

Taking a nap almost always beats a cup of coffee, according to sleep researchers, because a nap restores worn out synapse connections while coffee just pushes them to perform longer.

Slow Down Your Brain to Get More Done, with Steven Kotler The best-selling author discusses hypofrontality — literally the slowing of the brain’s prefrontal cortex — and how it allows […]

With the May 1st grand opening to the public of its new building in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, the Whitney Museum launches a new era not only in the New York City art scene, but also, possibly, in the very world of museums. Thanks to a Renzo Piano-designed new building built, as Whitney Director Adam D. Weinberg put it, “from the inside out” to serve the interests of the art and the patrons first, the new Whitney and its classic collection of American art stretching back to 1900 has drawn excited raves and exasperated rants from critics. Their inaugural exhibition, America Is Hard to See, gathers together long-loved classic works with rarely seen newcomers to create a paradox of old and new to mirror the many paradoxes of the American history the art embodies and critiques by turns. This shock of the new (and old) is the must-see art event of the year.

Sam Harris discusses the virtues of psychedelics such as LSD and MDMA. While he does not condone the use of these drugs without caveat, he does acknowledge their profound consciousness-altering properties.

Representative Tim Ryan of Ohio hosts a biweekly meeting of “The Quiet Time Caucus,” in which House members and their staff are invited to participate in mindful meditation.

If you’re not getting enough sleep at night you’re not going to be as productive or happy in your life. Try to make the decision to remedy that this new year.

Sleep as we know it has changed over the past few centuries thanks to the invention of the light bulb. The 8-hour sleep cycle may conflict with your body’s natural rhythms. 

Neuroscientist and best-selling author Sam Harris advocates for a secular form of meditation as a method for making fundamental discoveries about the nature of the mind.

Sam Harris: The Self is an Illusion Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one’s ego. Ray Kurzweil: […]

Consciousness is what it’s like and how it feels to be you. Thus, consciousness exists in a realm of irreducible subjectivity with which science isn’t always comfortable.

Neuroscientist and author Sam Harris discusses a form of spirituality founded on science and reason.

Driving while tired creates the most likely conditions for a road accident, especially when drivers are on the road between 2am and 5am or received fewer than five hours sleep the night before driving.

One day while walking through Rutgers’ Quad Two on the way to the gym, I noticed my friend Shelton across the lawn. As he bounced along the sidewalk—he was in […]

The stress-reductive benefits of meditation are trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.

A recent study out of Russia concludes there are two new sleep types: those who are most productive at the start and end of the day but feel sluggish during the middle hours, and the reverse.

Sam Harris describes the properties of consciousness and how mindfulness practices of all stripes can be used to transcend one’s ego.

How to Reverse Aging Enzymes like Telomerase and Resveratrol, though not the Fountain of Youth unto themselves, offer tantalizing clues to how we might someday soon unravel the aging process. […]

Listening to your body clock can help you be more alert, soak up new information faster, and generally be more productive, say sleep researchers who study chronobiology. 

Sam Harris says that stress-reductive benefits of meditation are rather trivial compared to the insights one can discover about the nature of the self.

Created during the 1980s to serve as a bridge between PG and R, the MPAA’s PG-13 rating has become a joke, says film critic Chris Klimek. He argues that shooting for a PG-13 rating promotes artistic conservatism and draconian content standards.

Employers who provide their workers with an on-site canteen or cafeteria tend to sport workforces with higher morale and boosted productivity.