Ants are amazing. They can carry 50 times their body weight. Their total biomass worldwide equals the total biomass of humans. Fungus...

General George B. “Little Mac” McClellan was the Union force commander during the Civil War. Beloved by his men, and a stickler for...

In January of 2013, I wrote a post on one of neuroscience’s most famous cases. New details make it necessary to retell the story. It’s...

Have you ever been in a meeting where no matter what, you can’t stay focused? You know it will be disastrous if you actually succumb to...

Q: What did the Zen master say to the hotdog vendor? A: “Make me one with everything...” Central to the premise of this old joke is the...

The structure of the brain is often described as an immense tangle of electrochemical connectors called neurons. These neurons number...

When we think of addiction, we might think of the heroin junkie lying on a dirty mattress with a needle in his arm, or a sweaty rockstar...

Let’s suppose that you’ve got a habit you want to break. You’ve followed the following five habit-breaking rules: 1. Tell a friend you’re...

StartFragmentI don’t need to tell you that sight is important for most people. It is estimated that the brain devotes 50% of its activity...

Exercise: you know you should, and yet for many, vanity might not be enough to get you on the old treadmill first thing in the morning....

When you think of brainwashing, the name Patty Hearst might come to mind. Daughter of the late newspaper tycoon Randolph Hearst, in 1974,...

On May 23, 1987 Kenneth Parks drove to his in-laws' house in the middle of the night and brutally murdered his wife’s mother and...