Sight helps you see a room, but interoception lets you sense it from inside your own body.
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From “The Castle of Otranto” to “The Lord of the Rings” trilogy, these books changed the literary landscape.
Spicy foods are enjoyed the world over, but scientists don’t know why people partake in culinary masochism.
Size matters, but it’s not the only thing.
A vertical map might better represent a world dominated by China and determined by shipping routes across the iceless Arctic.
Try this: It’s about 10 times the number of cups of water in all the oceans of Earth.
In the very early Universe, practically all particles were massless. Then the Higgs symmetry broke, and suddenly everything was different.
Computerized, job-focused learning undercuts the true value of higher education. Liberal arts should be our model for the future.
Simple “nudges” to remind people to show up for court could help keep thousands out of jail.
Stanford psychologist Jamil Zaki discusses the dangers of cynicism and how skepticism can invigorate our relationships and communities.
Amplifying the energy within a laser, over and over, won’t get you an infinite amount of energy. There’s a fundamental limit due to physics.
Brands like BMW, Walmart, and IBM are seeing big wins from the use of gamification in corporate training. Here’s how.
If tourism is the lifeblood of the Peruvian economy, then Machu Picchu is the heart pumping that blood — in sickness and in health.
When scientists tested this hydrogel on mice, they had cleaner teeth than most humans.
Saturn’s Iapetus, discovered way back in 1671, has three bizarre features that science still can’t fully explain.
I also can’t conjure sounds, smells, or any other kind of sensory stimulation inside my head. This is called “aphantasia.”
It didn’t look like anything I’d seen before, but I’d be a great fool to consider “aliens” as a reasonable possibility.
The researchers consumed a lot of wine while watching 15 seasons of the show.
Moral panics about the content of children’s cartoons and other forms of entertainment have a long history.
Because the milk was thin and had an unnatural, bluish tint, vendors stirred in additives such as chalk, flour, eggs, and Plaster-of-Paris.
Learning another language might make you richer, sexier, and smarter. Why not try it?
Forgetfulness isn’t always a “glitch” in our memories; it can be a tool to help us make sense of the present and plan for the future.
Certain colors are globally linked to certain feelings, the study reveals.
Centuries ago, the plague forced people into quarantine for years. Isaac Newton and Galileo used the time to revolutionize the world.
We tend to assume our view of the world is objective and accurate rather than subjective and biased — which is what it really is.
Signals from the environment, such as those detected by your sense organs, have no inherent psychological meaning. Your brain creates the meaning.
Every timekeeping device works via a version of a pendulum — even the atomic clocks that are accurate to nanoseconds.
The far side of the Moon is incredibly different from the Earth-facing side. 63 years later, we know why the Moon’s faces are not alike.