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There’s a psychological reason you haven’t created healthier habits in your life.

These 5 research-backed tips can turn bad habits into financial gain.

The separation of conjoined twins is fraught with stomach-churning biomedical and ethical challenges.

“You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it.”

Waistlines are expanding in most countries, except for a skinny list of nations bucking the trend.

Short-term thinkers take shortcuts. Take the long path instead, explains futurist Ari Wallach.

Challenging the loneliness stigma can change your life. Here’s how to start.

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.

Dr. Carl Hart breaks taboos surrounding drug use in America.

Voyage into the lawless world of experimental literature.

Is there an ultimate answer to the age-old question?

Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.

He couldn’t identify the numbers 2 through 9. But strangely, he could still see ones and zeros.

Meg LeFauve and Dave Holstein drew inspiration from psychologists as well as their own children, becoming more understanding parents in the process.

Great writing can unveil the criminal psyche better than any other artistic medium.

“Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?”

“To take this in, you need to ride inside the mathematical symbols.” 

A recently identified stage of sleep common to narcoleptics is a fertile source of creativity.

2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.

‘Flow state’ is a peak performance mental state experienced by the world’s highest achievers. Learn how it works in just 7 minutes.

Millennia ago, philosophers like Anaximander grasped that nature is the ultimate recycler.

You could become plant food.

Until robots understand jokes and sarcasm, artificial general intelligence will remain in the realm of science fiction.

Art criticism is inherently subjective. Still, many critics have tried to make a case for why some of the world’s most celebrated books are in fact terribly written. 

Better cognitive control over our decisions can stave off disappointment in our actions.

What a long strange trip it’s been.

Participants’ brains revealed they were doing a kind of “neural replay” of the game they had been manipulated to win.

The writer’s tragic death at age 46 has led many to view him as a tortured artist. Here’s why this label is reductive.

What if death isn’t the end? NDEs may complicate what science teaches us about death and consciousness.