When you think of “creativity,” you might conjure up images of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” or of a writer spending long hours agonizing over her next novel, hoping to be the next Joyce Carol Oates. While these are certainly monumentally important creative endeavors, this knee-jerk reaction [ … ]
Do you consume more than a quarter of your daily calories after your evening meal? Do you have trouble falling asleep or suffer from insomnia during the night? Is your appetite for breakfast generally lacking? If you answered “yes” to all of these questions, you have a condition called “night eating syndrome” [ … ]
When we hear the phrase “junk food” — we know it means the calorie and fat filled chips and sugar-laden candies, cookies, and goodies that fill store shelves and vending machines. But there’s been a rapid rise in a new wave of junk for quite some time. [ … ]
“Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal” explores some of the taboos and controversies related to our inner world of guts and mucus, such as academic disagreements on what the ideal standards for excrement frequency, consistency, and shape ought to be. However, author Mary Roach also [ … ]
We’ve all been there before. Tennis players can relate when the match is on their racquet and they feel frozen in space like they’ve never swung before. Their feet don’t move, their arms are like blocks of stone and the object they’re holding feels as foreign to them as a cell phone would to a caveman. [ … ]
At birth, the brain is the most underdeveloped organ in our body. It takes up until our mid-20s for our brains to fully mature. Any serious and prolonged adversity, such as a sudden, unexpected, and lasting separation from a caretaker, changes the structure of the developing brain. It damages a child’s [ … ]
“To approach consciousness scientifically, we can’t start with an assumption of magic,” Dr. Michael Graziano claims. The brain’s knowledge of itself is too biased and sketchy to rely on intuition. Instead, he suggests a purely rationalist approach looking at how the brain attributes awareness to itself [ … ]
Who doesn’t want to feel sexy in the summertime, when the sun is out and “the living is easy”? Along with exercising every day, here are five quick-fix tips for revving your energy, improving your mood and mind, and maybe even helping you drop a few pounds in the process. [ … ]
Hurricane Harvey saw tens of thousands of Texans forced from their homes. Two weeks later Irma saw 6.5 million Americans flee, clustering in uncomfortable shelters, a small taste of the refugee life experienced by 66 million people across the world today. Some Texas residents and Floridians experienced [ … ]
“We must change our way of thinking about these beliefs and the values that we are pursuing in our lives, because our culture and civilization is based upon our life’s values and beliefs. Now, we must choose hope to overcome the obstacles [ … ]
Every year, young people from all over the world come together in New York City to participate in the International Brain Education Association’s World Peace Leadership Program. They meet with many officials from various organizations and country missions associated with the United Nations [ … ]
Centuries ago, our hominin ancestors — apes that have been linked to all modern humans via mitochondrial DNA evidence — began a great migration across the African continent, first originating in the deserts before the land became too harsh to support life. According to some recent studies, apes like [ … ]
Known to most people as the star of TV series like “Taxi” and the author of self-help books about health, diet, and lifestyle, Marilu Henner has a more unusual claim to fame, one that puts her in a very elite minority: She is one of a handful of people confirmed to have highly superior autobiographical memory. [ … ]
Did you know that you can manage your disease better than anyone else can, even better than your doctor? (I am a doctor: this is a doctor saying this!) Yes, you can take charge of your disease and help banish it from your mind. How? Begin by having a positive approach to the illness [ … ]
Daniel Kahneman is the world’s pre-eminent investigator of the ways in which the limits of our cognitive abilities shape our judgments. Since the late 1960s, his work, much of which was carried out in close collaboration with the late Amos Tversky (1937–1996), has focused on our intuitive judgments. One of Kahneman and Tversky’s [ … ]
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