It’s the richest lottery game in the USA. When is it worth it to play? “I’ve done the calculation and your chances of winning the lottery are identical whether you […]
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The list of 200,000 Mars One hopefuls has been whittled down to 660 lucky people. So, what kind of people would make the final roster? Crazy-intelligent risk takers.
The design of a product — how easy it is to pick up and hold — may influence our choices in the grocery store more than we think.
Researchers at Vanderbilt University are experimenting with an electrode-fitted cap designed to improve the wearer’s thinking skills.
Winning a competition or completing a challenge causes your brain to release dopamine. Game makers can elicit more positive reactions from players by designing toward this end.
In the age of Tinder, it can be deceptively easy to spend a boatload on going on dates. Instead, try the more casual route. It doesn’t need to be expensive; just well thought-out.
Managing a classroom is an underrated skill that can be honed with strategies that encourage participation without intimidating students.
Folks in the American Northeast need to monitor their behavior and emotions to avoid suffering from seasonal affective disorder (SAD).
Author Bruce Feiler explains why arranging a 15-20 minute meeting each week will boost the happiness factor for everyone in the family.
All long-term relationships take commitment and work. New York Mag’s Ann Friedman points out that the relationship you have with yourself is by far the longest you’ll ever have. So work on it.
“Games are a trigger for adults to again become primitive, primal, as a way of thinking and remembering. An adult is a child who has more ethics and morals; that’s all.”
“Attractiveness can convey more power over visible space, but that in turn can make others feel they can’t approach that person,” said Dr. Tonya Frevert.
“The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel.”
The results of a new study estimate that 5 to 13 million tons of plastic trash end up in the ocean each year. The empirical evidence has experts wondering where most of it has ended up.
We could lose the ability to interpret digital data as software progresses and leaves old ways of coding data behind.
If it happened billions of years ago, what’s it still doing here? “We like to admit to only that which already glows, although it is nobler to support brightness before […]
Confessions of an Outlaw: A Creativity Workshop, with Philippe Petit High-wire artist Philippe Petit, who four decades ago performed illegally between the World Trade Center towers, explains how his personal […]
Reading about otherworldly events tickles our brains in a way researchers couldn’t imagine — namely in the part of our brains where we process emotion.
Legendary college basketball coach Dean Smith died last week at the age of 83. Former NBA player Shane Battier, who was recruited by Smith, but eventually settled on a rival school, recounts his memories of the man.
English-speaking students are at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world because English’s wacky written language requires rigorous memorization of myriad forms of spelling. This keeps kids from achieving literacy as quickly as those who speak more phonetic languages.
Type-A and type-B personalities experience time differently, according to a study that looked at why some people arrive habitually late to appointments.
An op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times by sociologist Phil Zuckerman supplied a reassuring answer for secular parents: absolutely. In the face of a previous study finding that children […]
A new study, which followed nearly 1 million people over 10 years, concludes that smoking is even deadlier than we thought, accounting for more than 60,000 additional deaths per year and five additional diseases.
A new feature allows users to designate a friend or family member to become the caretaker of your account should you die.
If they’re so massive that not even light can escape, how can we see them? “According to the special theory of relativity nothing can travel faster than light, so that […]
The US Academies of Science, Engineering, Medicine, and National Research moved to abandon aggressive geoengineering techniques in a new report.
Romance and reason are becoming estranged bedfellows (too bad—they were a cute couple). Does love’s logic now add up? Or is love like “happiness,” a low-resolution word (unhelpful in seeing key distinctions). Food for thought on love’s unrequited logic…
Medical professionals say low self-esteem and not feeling “man enough” are driving men’s dogged attempts to achieve a lean and muscular body.
Researchers were interested to know whether grassy areas, playgrounds or asphalt lots influenced children’s activity levels.
David Butler, vice president of Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Coca-Cola, speaks to the harms that befall big companies that refuse to adapt to remain relevant.