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What's the Point of Plants that Make Us Feel High?
Philosophers and Scientists (and Stoners) Have
Long Confronted the Question
By
David Schneider
| March 5, 2020
On the Madness of Crowds in the
Global Age of Terror
William Davies on Paranoia, Populism, and False Alarms
By
William Davies
| February 20, 2020
Of Womb-Furie, Hysteria, and Other Misnomers of the Feminine Condition
Clare Beams on Women's Bodies and the Power of Names
By
Clare Beams
| February 11, 2020
How Does Focusing on the Self Affect a Woman's Sex Life?
"Great sex is mostly a matter of paying attention."
By
Katherine Rowland
| February 6, 2020
We're Just Scratching the Surface of the Modern Environment's Effect on Brain Health
Donna Jackson Nakazawa on Microglial Cells and Nature's "Neat Evolutionary Trick"
By
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
| January 31, 2020
How We Pay Attention Changes the Very Shape of Our Brains
Stanislas Dehaene on the Neuroscience of Focused Learning
By
Stanislas Dehaene
| January 30, 2020
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Pig Hearts, Placental Stem Cells, and the Search for the Aging Cure
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Chip Walter
| January 28, 2020
The Extreme Move That Saved Florida Panthers From Extinction
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Craig Pittman
| January 28, 2020
The Desire for Friendship Runs Deeper in Primates Than We Thought
By
Lydia Denworth
| January 28, 2020
How, Exactly, Does Neuroscience Account for the Way We See Color?
Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks Debate the Internalist View of Consciousness
By
Riccardo Manzotti and Tim Parks
| January 24, 2020
When a Man Took a Joke in a Pepsi Ad Seriously,
Chaos Ensued
Matt Parker on the Time Someone Tried to Buy a
Jet Plane Using Pepsi Points
By
Matt Parker
| January 23, 2020
15 Great Books That Speak to the Lives of Middle-Aged Women
Ada Calhoun Offers a Long Overdue Reading List
By
Ada Calhoun
| January 9, 2020
Has Listening Become
a Lost Art?
Kate Murphy on the Evolving Modes of Communication
in the 21st Century
By
Kate Murphy
| January 7, 2020
On the Strange Connection Between Brain Damage and Sex Drive
Sarah Vallance Learns to Navigate a Post-Traumatic Life of Desire
By
Sarah Vallance
| January 6, 2020
How Do Some Authors “Lose Control” of Their Characters?
Is it the Mysterious Work of the Unconscious, or the Mechanized Brain?
By
Jim Davies
| December 18, 2019
Why (and How, Exactly) Did Early Humans Start Cooking?
Guy Crosby on the Connection Between the Way We Eat
and Who We Are
By
Guy Crosby
| December 17, 2019
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"Confident and unsettling I m forced to be coy because there s a mystery at…"