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Listening to some songs can cause a powerful physiological response known as “frisson.” What is it, and why does it happen?
The central equation of quantum mechanics, the Schrödinger equation, is different from the equations found in classical physics.
There are four money personality types. Which are you?
How can you fit a camel through a needle?
Sound may be an overlooked tool for boosting well-being.
To understand others, you need to see past their fleeting emotions. You must perceive who they are as people.
How scientists found out that we live in a cosmic aquarium.
Admitting that we know little about our future selves can radically improve our decision-making.
In her 2020 book, “The Alchemy of Us,” Ainissa Ramirez explores how important material inventions shaped the course of human experience.
Literature’s first utopia shows how far we’ve come.
Why does the DMT experience feel so familiar to some people — even those who are trying the psychedelic for the first time?
This map samples some of the digits that make up the DDC system, invented by the brilliant but flawed Melvil Dewey.
According to Harvard career advisor Gorick Ng, this time-saving system can help us reclaim our work-life sanity.
Arguments are a normal and often healthy part of a relationship. It all depends on picking the right kind of arguments, though.
Don’t let your reptile brain tell you what to do.
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Your inner voice can be the devil on your shoulder or the angel. It depends on where your focus lies.
The debate goes back at least 400 years.
Progress got derailed somewhere between indoor plumbing and the flying car. Why?
Democratic freedom, rapturous religion, and newspapers created a hotbed for social experimentation in 19th-century America.
The separation of pleasure from procreation may occur throughout the cosmos, providing an explanation for the Fermi Paradox.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
GPT-3, which features 175 billion parameters, just might fool you in a conversation.
A new study suggests that depressed people may prefer a Leonard Cohen or Bob Dylan song to one from The Beach Boys or One Direction.
The fictitious 31st-century world portrayed by the series is actually quite a bit like our own in the 21st century.
Life’s stages are changing – we need new terms and new ideas to describe how adults develop and grow
Ages 30 to 45 are now “the rush hour of life.”
Modern applications of Stoicism show up in unexpected places, from the latest techniques in psychotherapy to texts on Christian theology.
Humanity is never fully in control of its creations. This lesson from Mary Shelley has remained relevant for over 200 years.
Is the dumpster in the alley worthy of a poem?