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5mins
Our brains didn't evolve to see the world accurately, we only perceive what is useful and apply meaning to it. Neuroscientist Beau Lotto shows us how the sausage of reality is made.
Not everyone sees color the way you do. There are a suite of tools available to help graphic designers work more inclusively.
Wingland? Flemingia? The indignity of colonisation includes the imposed ignorance of the coloniser
You might think that it should be all black, but then how would we see it? “It is conceptually interesting, if not astrophysically very important, to calculate the precise apparent shape […]
An accidental discovery may lead to a vaccine-like treatment for depression and PTSD.
4mins
When it comes to time, and what the heck it actually is, there's a clash of ideas between physics and neuroscience.
Here’s how a discovery by a plucky band of sky-watchers changed science.
A study suggests people act aggressively on their prejudices when they have plausible deniability.
2mins
The Many Worlds Interpretation is just one of a few multiverse hypotheses—but is there a glaring paradox in this popular idea?
Spontaneous talk on surprise topics. Architecture critic Sarah W. Goldhagen on how the built environment shapes our minds and cultures.
'Trump supporter' is not a synonym for moron. Philosophy professor Daniel Bonevac is a reminder that understanding your opposites, not dismissing them, is the way forward.
The world's first malaria vaccine will be released in Ghana, Keyna, and Malawi in 2018. While malaria was eradicated in the US by 1951, it still kills over 400,000 people worldwide each year. Will this vaccine help eradicate malaria?
Sometimes, designing a careful experiment and measuring absolutely no effect can be the most important result of all. “It appears, from all that precedes, reasonably certain that if there be any […]
4mins
Sara Blakely, the inventor of Spanx, literally stared from the bottom. Here's how she built a billion-dollar empire without a single business class.
Alain De Botton talks about the danger of succumbing to “status anxiety” that leaves you caring too much how others judge your value.
Wanting there to be something beyond the standard model may be influencing what we actually investigate. “In recent years several new particles have been discovered which are currently assumed to […]
3mins
Faith is absurd — let’s embrace the comedy in that.
Netflix’s new teen suicide drama has parents and many mental-health experts terrified.
Britain hasn't brexited yet, but the EU has already scrapped it from its map