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The acceptance of death is deeply embedded in our culture; it’s time to overthrow that idea.

The key? A computational flattening algorithm.

Neuroscientist David Linden says the human need for love is actually the indirect result of our inefficient neurons.

Scientists feel under attack. This is how they’re fighting back.

Constant touching and emotional warmth are essential to cognitive development, yet our educational and professional environments are skeptical, often for litigious reasons.

Just as Shakespeare’s Prince Hamlet is more often bedeviled by his own thoughts, enhancing your brain might one day mean shutting parts of it down, not getting it to fire on all cylinders.

As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand. 

As François Jacob famously said, evolution is a tinkerer and not an engineer. When you’re a tinkerer, you throw things together to solve the problem at hand.

Why are humans so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

Why are we so aberrant? It’s because our neurons are lousy processors, so we need big, fat brains to make clever us.

Humans are hardwired to get a pleasure buzz from uncertainty. Neuroscientist David Linden explains how tweeting is like watching the ball spinning in the roulette wheel.

The fusion of mind and machine—what futurist Ray Kurzweil calls the Singularity—depends on the faulty premise that our understanding of neurobiology increases exponentially. 

Do digital media have any sweeping, unique pleasure-giving qualities? David J. Linden, Professor in the Department of Neuroscience at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, says the effect is […]