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Arthur Brennan is a senior lecturer of psychology, research methods and statistics at St George’s, University of London. In a recent Washington Post article, he explains how his team of researchers came to the conclusion that male “sympathy pregnancy” symptoms are real.

Hollywood: City of Scandal. For example, Rin-Tin-Tin was apparently robbed of an Oscar in 1929 when the organizers decided they wouldn’t be taken seriously if they gave an award to a dog. I guess you could say that the voting results were… fixed. 

If you’re binge-watching through the night, chances are you’re not getting enough sleep. That means you’re probably not nearly as productive or happy as you should be during the day. Take a crash course in story structure and self-control in order to quash your addiction.

“To be liberated, woman must feel free to be herself, not in rivalry to man but in the context of her own capacity and her personality.”  

If something went horribly wrong, could you possibly return to Earth? Image credit: ISRO. “I sometimes catch myself looking up at the Moon, remembering the changes of fortune in our […]

Montage of eight photographs of cats, ca. 1903-1928 from Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute. Part of a larger collection taken by photographer Jessie Tarbox Beals.

A recent Minnesota state audit revealed that board members of the charitable nonprofit Community Action of Minneapolis were dipping into the organization’s coffers. While it’s not always easy to spot that sort of corruption, you can do your own quick investigating to determine whether a nonprofit is worth your time and money.

“The extasy [sic] of abstract beauty,” artist Richard Pousette-Dart scrawled in 1981 in a notebook on a page across from a Georges Braque-looking abstract pencil drawing. Although included in Nina Leen’s iconic 1951 Life magazine photo “The Irascibles” that featured Abstract Expressionist heavyweights Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko, and Barnett Newman, Pousette-Dart has always stood on the edges, as he does in the photo, of full identification with that group.

“It’s important to remember that Holmes wasn’t born Holmes. Holmes was born like you and me but probably with greater potential for certain elements of observation, but he learned over time to think like Sherlock Holmes.” -Author Maria Konnikova, from her Big Think Interview

Author Jeffrey Kluger describes how even Gandhi and MLK exhibited narcissistic behaviors in his recent Big Think Interview.

“I think a hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles. They are the real heroes, and so are the families and friends who have stood by them.” Christopher Reeve would have been 62-years-old yesterday. Next month will mark the ten-year anniversary of his death.

An analysis of 101 essays penned by failed founders revealed that 42% of startups go under because their product isn’t wanted by the market.

Open houses are a terrific way to attract the attention of potential homebuyers. Just remember: sometimes you need to get out of your own way.

BEIJING – About 2,565 years ago a wise and aristocratic Kong Qiu came to the world, 551 years before a certain Jesus of Nazareth, nutcase and son of a penniless […]

Allowing employees to work from home saves money and boosts morale. But to guarantee productivity remains high, it’s important to set strong standards, particularly with teleconferencing.

On one hand, asbestos is a major health hazard. On the other: 27 world championships. 

Spruce is a new iPhone app helps you secure prescription drugs to treat acne. It’s just another in a long line of telemedical advances coming soon to your device.

When I first started designing products, I used to mainly think about their aesthetics. That seems like the right, and obvious, thing to do. However, product design is not fine […]

How the entire history of the Universe gave rise to us, in ten giant leaps. Image credit: Zosia Rostomian, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. “It surprises me how disinterested we are […]

In theory, there’s a way to push the cosmic reset button. Here’s how. “Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is […]

Sometimes the behavior of people who aggravate and annoy you can unconsciously affect the ways you behave yourself. Introspection and self-awareness exercises can help get the monkey off your back and allow you to improve your decision making. 

For £162 ($264), British Airways frequent fliers can take a course to prepare them for an in-flight emergency. The airline hopes people who take the class can be leaders if crises occur. 

The former wrestler shares how he was basically illiterate at age 30, a sufferer of dyslexia. It was an untamed drive to learn (and a little help from Lee Iacocca) that helped him overcome this disability.

One-hundred years ago, this youngster was likely shouting out headlines related to the Battle of Warsaw or the Boston Braves’ victory in the first ever World Series sweep.

When I first heard of Yossarian Lives, a website that bills itself as the metaphorical search engine, I thought “no way!” Good metaphors are inherently artistic and depend on a […]

This photograph depicting a young girl at work in a North Carolina cotton mill was taken by the American photographer Lewis W. Hine (1874 – 1940) in 1908. Child labor in […]

Better models of our nature are needed. Freud’s ideas, though discredited by many, still haunt the arts, and exert  influence within science. Three ideas buried in Steven Pinker’s book about declining violence can help.

The secret to making it to 25 years and beyond is to maintain the partnership’s importance over work, kids, and other parts of life.

“No one’s idea of excellence in conduct,” Mill wrote, “is that people should do absolutely nothing but copy one another.”

The first study to examine the wearable technology as a road distraction found that it’s still dangerous to text while driving even if you’re not holding a phone.