Kristen French
The Quest for Wisdom in Turbulent Times
A conversation with three Harvard professors about the practice of wisdom in everyday living
The Teenage Girl Who Remembers Everything
A conversation with a scientist about a 16-year-old who has highly superior autobiographical memory
Inside the Mind of a Narcissist
Their brains don’t sync the same way when it comes to processing empathy
LSD May Speed Up Brain Activity and Make it Fractal
New study suggests a more complex reshuffling of experience
How Our Brains Read Emotions in Other People
This multisensory process engages many brain networks at once
Why Story and Playtime Really Matter
Face-to-face interaction trumps screens for social and language learning
Our Messy Cyborg Past and Future
Mike Jay, author of “Wireheads,” on the murky borderlands where the science and fiction of mind control meet
