If you think we’re talking about someone else, don’t be so hasty. One study highlights how the vast majority of people choose ignorance over knowing.
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Schrodinger’s cat is one of the most famous thought experiments of all time, but what does it mean for science, and what happens to the poor cat?
As mankind raises its eyes to Mars and asks, “How do we get there?”, we might need to ask, “Should we go?”. Carl Sagan said we may not be entitled to visit a potentially inhabited planet.
Two things really ruin the holiday season: bon bon jokes and egocentrism. This study helps take the latter out of the gift-giving equation.
Does smiling make you happier? These and many other popular claims in psychology are not standing up to scrutiny. Here’s what that means for science.
There are many strange instances of marketing and holiday traditions coming together. Let’s be more alert in 2017.
Ancient teachings from the western tradition have impressed on us the importance of authenticity and being true to one’s self. But what if those teachings set us on the wrong path?
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Today, a person’s organs will be harvested, whether or not their family is against it.
The flash lasts seconds, the brightness dies down in months. Yet centuries later, the remnant still shines. “When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things — not […]
Regardless of truth, the best storyteller wins: how else could a quarter of Americans, many struggling financially, ‘relate’ to a billionaire real estate mogul?
Studies confirm that having experiences makes us happier than material possessions.
Job automation won’t be as bad as we think, so we need to learn how to stop working and prepare so we’re not dragged into the future kicking and screaming.
Silver medalists are likely less happy than Bronze medalists, because our minds have a tendency to dwell on “what could have been.”
Programmers at MIT publish A.I.-generated scary images scary for Halloween.
Bill Nye casts his mind to the future to give us a picture of how the descendants of our current 3D printing technology will change our ways and our world.
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It seems difficult to explain why evangelical Christians swung their vote toward Donald J. Trump in the 2016 Presidential Election.
Few see how strongly science’s preferred languages shape and limit the thinking of many experts.
Every year, companies try to do things better, to find the most effective way to complete some task or to improve overall productivity. Employee learning programs play a massive part […]
Slavoj Žižek considers the pursuit of happiness to be dumb because we don’t really want it anyway.
A new study looks at how a stronger working memory can reduce depression.
The study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition seems to indicate that eating regular-fat cheese has no effect on our bad cholesterol (LDL), but does have a positive effect on our good cholesterol (HDL).
The Los Angeles Hope Festival is the celebration and examination of hope and optimism, two paradigmatic mental attitudes that play a vital and influential role in our daily lives.
Narcissists aren’t born – they’re made, says development psychologist Alison Gopnik. She takes issue with the popular notion that children need to unlearn brashness and learn civility, when neuroscience shows that it tends to work in the reverse.
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The ridiculousness of Hollywood science when it comes to memory loss.
We know the benefits about positivity. What about grumpiness?
This AI hates racism, retorts wittily when sexually harassed, dreams of being superintelligent, and finds Siri’s conversational skills to be decidedly below her own.
Romantic advice from some of humanity’s biggest thinkers.
The truly awesome part of Facebook’s company culture isn’t the unlimited holidays or the free lunches, says Stuart Crabb, former Global Head of Learning. It’s something much deeper.
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Emma Seppälä, Ph.D explains the flaws of multitasking, and how meditation can help you achieve mental clarity, increase productivity and even up your levels of charm.
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