The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

The US writer George Saunders, a winner of the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Award, is celebrated for both his masterful prose and his empathetic storytelling. In this short video, he ...

A criminal investigation is a complex, multifaceted problem-solving challenge. Detectives must make critical decisions rapidly – sometimes involving life and death, based on limited information in a ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

Some masculine norms are a straightjacket, depriving men of the connections they need. It takes bravery to leave them behind ‘I get sad at weddings, but not for the reason you might think. When I see ...

Nadine Weidman is a lecturer on the history of science at Harvard University. She is the author of Constructing Scientific Psychology: Karl Lashley’s Mind-Brain Debates (1999) and Race, Racism, and ...

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As tech giants and algorithms distort the information landscape, what’s left of the individual’s duty to be informed? How might we alleviate our society’s misinformation problem? One suggestion goes ...

Humans have consumed substances with consciousness-altering properties for millennia. Traditional societies used them in healing rituals, initiation ceremonies and to make contact with the gods and ...

Your demise is inevitable. I hope that doesn’t come as too much of a shock. I agree that the brevity of human existence is bothersome. Thankfully, for most of us, this frightful fact usually hovers ...

Millions are preparing for doomsday, not together, but by closing the hatch. It’s a logical response to a hollowed-out state A family of six pulls up to the Be Prepared Expo in Farmington, Utah. They ...

True crime podcasts turn violence against women into a form of entertainment. Why do so many female listeners enjoy them? After a gruesome introduction to the true crime podcast Crime Junkie, I ...