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The “Mind After Midnight” hypothesis aims to explain why night owls tend to suffer more negative health outcomes.
Do grim sci-fi scenarios crush our hopes for real-world growth? Author Michael Harris looks elsewhere to unblock the road to a better future.
In an environment of impressive IQs, emotional intelligence makes all the difference.
Explore how belief shapes destiny, from Oedipus Rex to modern geopolitics.
Who — or what — really controls your mind?
You really can get by with a little help from your friends — if you also look beyond your personal to-do list.
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
A new study says the reason cave paintings are in such remote caverns was the artists’ search for transcendence.
Why dispelling the notion that it’s all about getting the correct answer is so powerful.
Daydreaming can be a pleasant pastime, but people who suffer from maladaptive daydreaming are trapped by their fantasies.
The true story of the shot that “reverberated through England” when science collided head-on with religion.
To make a ton of information stick in your mind, you have to make it chunky.
When we rely on the conscious mind alone, we lose; but when we listen to the body, we gain a winning edge.
The tonal Native American language differentiates words based on pitch and makes Spanish conjugation look like child’s play.
Psychologists are exploring this creepy feeling of having already lived through an experience before.
We will believe in AGI when it calls on Facetime.
Awe-inspiring moments can be found in our daily lives, and they have surprising benefits for our health and sense of well-being.
Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
Neuroscientists hope to learn more in the hope of finding a way to reverse dementia.
For Nietzsche, a great work of art can either veil the horror of reality or – better yet – help us face it.
You can’t spot a liar just by looking — but psychologists are zeroing in on methods that might actually work.
The key to curbing sugar intake may lie in the gut rather than our tastebuds.
Autocrats like Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin fear democracy, yet go to great lengths to present themselves as democratic leaders.
The gaze of another person can make us conceive of our body as an object.
Your life’s memories could, in principle, be stored in the universe’s structure.
The English writer left behind a mind-expanding collection of books.
Modern robotics are creating a kind of cultural paradox, where the best religion is the one that eventually involves no humans at all.
Suppose that fetuses are persons. Since pregnant people are too, how should conflicts between them be settled?
The results of a 2021 study suggest that the world’s most powerful psychedelic may be an underutilized peace-building tool.