Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

Some people might think that the consequences of having to avoid heights are minimal. But imagine you’re invited to a job interview on the 16th floor of a city office block. Or that your kids are ...

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

The sense that a dead person is still with us is both eerie and common: can we find a naturalistic explanation for it?

You and your friends are out for dinner at an Italian restaurant, and the waiter lists a few specials for you to choose from. You decide on the tagliatelle. Your friend closest to you leans over and ...

I grew up knowing the first day of deer-hunting season without ever looking at a calendar. In rural southern Indiana, the signs were everywhere: pre-dawn pick-up trucks parked along gravel roads, ...

In the mid-15th century, when Johannes Gutenberg began experimenting with movable type, the scribes who had spent their lives copying manuscripts by hand could not have known they were witnessing the ...