Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
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When you imitate the speech of others, there’s a thin line between whether it’s a social asset or faux pas.
Most cities reeked of death, defecation, and industrial waste. Still, focusing only on stench means turning a blind eye (or nose) to the many other smells that helped shape human history.
Jim Lee, President, Publisher, and Chief Creative Officer of DC Comics, tells us how his childhood obsession with Superman changed his life.
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An independent researcher looks into why there’s such strong opposition to her research.
Through self-tracking and self-experimentation, we can greatly improve our cognitive capacity.
Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.
Lessons from child development research teach us how we learn to trust others.
MIT neuroscientists have identified a population of neurons in the human brain that respond to singing but not other types of music.
How drugs, demons, and the search for immortality gave us words we use everyday.
The more horror we consume, the harder it becomes to find a good scare. These genuinely unsettling movies should get you in the mood for Halloween.
Sex, it turns out, isn’t as easy or simple as popular culture might lead us to believe.
Mixed messages and competing interests have left college students feeling lost and stressed.
What if the barrier to a fulfilled life isn’t technology but culture?
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
It took a series of ingenious experiments in the 20th century to uncover some of our biggest cognitive biases.
New ideas inevitably face opposition. A new book called “The Human Element” argues that overcoming opposition requires understanding the concepts of “Fuel” and “Friction.”
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.
The Field Medal was created to elevate promising mathematicians from underrepresented demographics. But has it followed through on that goal?
More work is needed before declaring the technique a fountain of youth.
Sigmund Freud developed the decidedly unscientific principles of psychoanalysis in a time when most psychologists were trying to join the ranks of chemists and medical doctors.
The Source Family, a radical 1970s utopian commune, still impacts what we eat today.
A new paper reveals that the Voyager 1 spacecraft detected a constant hum coming from outside our Solar System.
The treatment is here, but are we ready?
The conventional wisdom may be wrong. Consulting Google for information about medical symptoms might not be as counterproductive as commonly thought, new research suggests.
How (not) to end up in the ash heap of history.
Many people believe that in the face of profound evil, they would have the courage to speak up. It might be harder than we think.
A new technique for analyzing networks can tell who wields soft power.
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]