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Humans are good visual thinkers, too, but we tend to privilege verbal thinking.
Yoga is more than just standing on your head. It’s about uniting with the divine.
It’s deceptively tricky to distinguish living systems from non-living systems. Physics may be key to solving the problem.
By developing skills like divergent thinking and collaboration in the workforce, creativity training has the potential to unlock revolutionary ideas.
Temporal lobe epilepsy seems to rewire a part of the brain that’s key to storing memories.
Forget these scientific myths to better understand your brain and yourself.
Hindsight can cloud our predictive abilities but big data can de-mist forecasting — now AI is sharpening that focus.
Could a theory from the science of perception help crack the mysteries of psychosis?
The modern attention economy hijacks our ability to focus, but an ancient technique offers a means to get it back.
Denmark’s 10 Jante Laws are grim, and yet they bring so much happiness.
Large language models are an impressive advance in AI, but we are far away from achieving human-level capabilities.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
It’s possible to measure philosophy’s progress in two ways. But is that really the point?
We might be dining on insect-based Christmas pies with robot-harvested algae on the side.
There are two conceptions of free will: “straight” and “mixed.”
In a nod to its addictive qualities, it was first dubbed “Some More.”
The initial goal of AI was to create machines that think like humans. But that is not what happened at all.
Predictive power has perverse, anti-democratic consequences. So be a good citizen and lie to election pollsters.
Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
The key to its success lies not in its understanding of technology, but in its understanding of human nature.
In Orwell’s dystopian novel, the government uses Newspeak to control thoughts by controlling language. But thoughts do not require language.
What the hell is “re-engineering business value creation systems” anyway?
Researchers are finding signs of multiple phases of sleep all over the animal kingdom. The ‘active’ sleep phases look very much like REM.
In “Moral Ambition,” Dutch historian Rutger Bregman argues that all would benefit from a collective redefinition of success.
We know sleep is more important than aimlessly scrolling on social media or checking our email for the 50th time. So, why do we do it?
