Human Behaviour
Mind & Meaning
Psychology and the human experience under pressure. From the introvert who needs three days alone after a party to the astronaut managing isolation on the ISS — Mind & Meaning explores how people make sense of themselves and others, and what frontier life teaches us about being human.
Psychology
In the original Dunning-Kruger studies, bottom-quartile performers greatly…
Psychology
Close relationships are associated with better later-life wellbeing, but they are…
Human Factors
Around 240 BCE, Eratosthenes used shadows and geometry to estimate Earth’s…
Human Factors
Only 66 years separate the Wright Brothers' first 12-second powered flight in 1903…
Science & Engineering
Periodical cicadas in the eastern United States emerge from the ground every 13 or…
Human Factors
Daniel Everett’s account of the Pirahã language challenges linguistic universals
Human Factors
A survey of over one thousand adults found that vacationers were happier, but…
Psychology
IQ-test scores have fallen in several countries, but that does not mean the world…
Human Factors
Carl Jung suggested life splits into two halves, and the surprise is what the…
Human Factors
We tend to define boredom as the feeling of having nothing to do, but it might…
Human Behaviour
By 2030, Korean women are projected to become the first population in human history…
Human Factors
Thought of the day from novelist and essayist Annie Dillard
Psychology
Thought by Carl Sagan: "...every saint and sinner in the history of our species…
Human Factors
After tracking how people formed new friendships, a researcher estimated the hours…
Human Factors