100 Results
Why Some Sports Fans Have More Fun
How mirror neurons affect the experience of fandom.
Why Is the Human Brain So Efficient?
How massive parallelism lifts the brain’s performance above that of AI.
How the Fencing Reflex Connects Life and Death
Primitive reflexes shepherd us into this world, and out.
The Surprising Relativism of the Brain’s GPS
How new data is transforming our understanding of place cells.
Unhappiness Is a Palate-Cleanser
Why it’s impossible to always be happy.
Why Your Biology Runs on Feelings
Think feelings are important? You’re more right than you know.
Antonio Damasio Tells Us Why Pain Is Necessary
The neuroscientist explains why feelings evolved.
Why Curiosity Can Be Both Painful and Pleasurable
The emerging neurology of one of our most human characteristics.
When Neurology Becomes Theology
A neurologist’s perspective on research into consciousness.
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