Stockholm Syndrome is the most famous of 10 psychological disorders named after world cities. Most relate to tourism or hostage-taking.
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The most important events in history have nothing to do with politics or wars.
Words of wisdom from H.P. Lovecraft, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dr. Temple Grandin, Hannah Gadsby and more.
Walter Pitts rose from the streets to MIT, but couldn’t escape himself.
American universities used to be small centers of rote learning, but three big ideas turned them into intellectual powerhouses.
Awe makes us feel smaller but also more connected to life and each other.
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In the 1980s, some wardens started painting their cells with a shade of pink dubbed “Baker-Miller Pink.”
The Big Bang was hot, dense, uniform, and filled with matter and energy. Before that? There was nothing. Here’s how that’s possible.
For the first time, it was discovered that nonphotosynthetic bacteria have a circadian clock.
Trained dogs can detect cancer and other diseases by smell. Could a device do the same?
Surprising as it may seem, we are all very good at denial. Negation, however, is a different phenomena.
No matter how controversial or politicized our world becomes, science remains humanity’s best tool for figuring out how things work.
In each of our minds, we draw a demarcation line between beliefs that are reasonable and those that are nonsense. Where do you draw your line?
The world is changing, and technology is driving that change. Today, that observation is about as compelling as the insight that water runs downhill. It’s just what technology (and water) […]
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
Surrounding Earth is a powerful magnetic field created by swirling liquid iron in the planet’s core. Earth’s magnetic field may be nearly as old as the Earth itself – and […]
Scott Dikkers discusses comedy, the creative process, and life lessons learned playing peekaboo.
Reading code activates a general-purpose brain network, but not language-processing centers.
Many contrarians dispute that cosmic inflation occurred. The evidence says otherwise.
Because of our ability to think about thinking, “the gap between ape and man is immeasurably greater than the one between amoeba and ape.”
Most people seem to enjoy liberalism and its spin offs, but what is it exactly? Where did the idea come from?
The opening lines of Smartmatic’s $2.7 billion lawsuit against Fox News lay bare the culture of denial in the US.
After mammoth investments and two decades of anti-aging research, what do immortality proponents have to show for it?
For some philosophers, hope is a second-rate way of relating to reality.
When Tal Golesworthy was told he was at risk of his aorta bursting, he wasn’t impressed with the surgery on offer – so he came up with his own idea.
The compound found in “magic mushrooms” has significant and fast-acting impact on the brains of rats.
Signals from across the universe point toward a fascinating possibility.