This Is Your Brain on Crosswords Let me tell you a tale of two grandfathers, Irv and Murray. For decades, Irv, an introverted, quiet, retired bartender and former military engineer, had the same morning routine: coffee and cream; a roll; … Continue reading Thinking inside the box
What Misinformation Has to Do With Toilet Paper It started with an unsubstantiated rumor. “You can laugh now,” Johnny Carson said on The Tonight Show on December 19, 1973, “but there is an acute shortage of toilet paper.” There wasn’t—but … Continue reading The age of misinformation
Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired When news of a mysterious viral pneumonia linked to a market in Wuhan, China, reached the outside world in early January, one of my first reactions was to order a modest supply … Continue reading The mask message
Free thought: can you ever be a truly independent thinker? There’s good news and bad news on this one. In his poem Invictus, William Ernest Henley wrote: “It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, … Continue reading Followers of fashion
Testosterone is widely, and sometimes wildly, misunderstood We place unreasonable trust in biological explanations of male behaviour. Nowhere is this truer than with testosterone. Contemporary pundits invoke the hormone nicknamed ‘T’ to prove points about maleness and masculinity, to show … Continue reading A social molecule
Psychology of Space: How Interiors Impact our Behavior? With most of our lives spent indoors, the space we occupy has a major role in our psychological behavior. Environmental psychology or Space psychology is, in fact, the interaction between people and … Continue reading Spaces around you
This Weird, Sound-Induced Illusion Makes You Feel That Your Finger Has Grown Longer Adults are vulnerable to all kinds of body illusions. We can be made to feel that a fake hand, or even a fake body, is our own; … Continue reading Body illusions
