A new study confirms that zapping your brain with electricity might increase the ability for creative thought.
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Is Amanda Palmer (who turns 40 today!), queen of pop-up concerts, kickstarter, and social media, the prototypical artist of the future?
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The best way to solve a big problem is to think small.
Looking at cute cat photos has potential work benefits according to a study by Hiroshima University researchers.
I scored an exclusive interview with Dave Reitze, the executive director of LIGO. Take a trip inside his Universe. “When I was in high school, I was certain that being […]
Wonder how your brain makes space for new memories? Scientists at Oxford just discovered how.
A mysterious, unidentifed, low-frequency hum as been baffling people for years.
New research verifies that each addresses a separate cognitive domain.
Douglas Rushkoff’s new book Throwing Rocks at the Google Bus is a refreshingly practical progressive how-to amid the rhetorical excesses of this election year.
There is a crisis in male health. Learn what it is and how scientists plan to overcome it.
That our atoms come from stars? You’ve got to think bigger than that! “The older people that one admires seem to be fearless. They go right out into the world. It’s […]
We may be able to harness our own “data exhaust” to do great things.
Author-musician James McBride claims that James Brown, the Godfather of Soul, holds the secret to America’s race-torn soul.
You may not have heard, but agriculture is about to undergo a truly organic revolution. Indigo is one of many agriculture businesses that’s researching how microbes can help increase crop yields even as our climate changes.
There are continuous gaps in consciousness when information is processed and you lose a sense of time says new research.
Neuroscience research shows that variety is important for healthy individuals and healthy societies.
If you’ve ever wondered what happens to a tattoo, the answer’s more surprising than you think.
A variation of the “the trolley problem” and how a psychopath weighs his or her options differently than others.
The Advent of Wearable Tech is here and it Pairs Perfectly with Medical Detection.
What do Rachel Dolezal and the ethnic foodie scene have in common?
Is it about to get easier to trust our health to an app?
By devising the first truly brilliant physics experiment, Galileo gave us the equations of motion we still use today. “All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point […]
John Eliot Gardiner looks at what we know if Johan Sebastian Bach’s argumentative life.
Groundbreaking brain scans by a crowdfunded study at Imperial College London show how LSD affects the brain and consciousness.
Without a boost, they’ll all come crashing down. “I’m here for several reason, Mr. Pepin, first of all for aid. When something tragic happens in our skies, we do our utmost […]
Kevin Dutton presents the warning signs that someone close to you is a psychopath.
We often now picture our minds in unsound ways. They’re built to resonate to poetry. We’ve all but lost the memory of poetry’s historic role in molding minds (that’s the unsung pretext of Plato’s poetry ban). Poetry is a key cognitive technology , so powerful it was the Internet of its time.
Did Haiti just get the help it needs from an innovative startup?
Celebrating Hispanic culture, the map-shaped fountain is one of Zaragoza’s more curious attractions