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Can You Overdose on Happiness?

The science and philosophy of deep brain stimulation.

April 30, 2018

Autistic Prodigies Since “Rain Man”

Our evolving understanding of “the engineer’s disease.”

January 2, 2018

The Resulting Fallacy Is Ruining Your Decisions

Are you judging your decisions on their outcomes?

November 30, 2017

How Evolution Designed Your Fear

The universal grip of Stephen King’s personal terrors.

October 24, 2017

What Boredom Does to You

The science of the wandering mind.

October 23, 2017

The Perils of Letting Machines into the Hive Mind

We think we know more than we do—including how machines will behave.

Emotional Intelligence Needs a Rewrite

Think you can read people’s emotions? Think again.

Why Your Brain Hates Other People

And how to make it think differently.

June 16, 2017

Are You a Self-Interrupter?

Distraction in the technology age.

Pre-Conscious Humans May Have Been Like the Borg

Does an alien race from Star Trek tell the story of human consciousness?

April 27, 2017

Why Poverty Is Like a Disease

Emerging science is putting the lie to American meritocracy.

April 17, 2017

What the Rat Brain Tells Us About Yours

The evolution of animal models for neuroactive medicine.

April 6, 2017