mandela effect New scientific paper shows the Mandela Effect is real Thom Dunn

psychology What it's like to have aphantasia, the inability to create mental pictures Mark Frauenfelder

cognitive biases The cognitive bias codex links to a definition of each cognitive bias Popkin

belief Why are people still swayed by cults? Devin Nealy

LGBTQ+ rights Israel Health Ministry bans LGBTQ+ conversion "therapy" David Pescovitz

dark patterns Dark patterns in games Rob Beschizza

death It's possible to "think" yourself to death David Pescovitz

pheromones An odorless compound emitted by people could make women aggressive and men docile Mark Frauenfelder

psychology RIP Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, author of "Flow" (1934-2021) Mark Frauenfelder

trauma Researchers find a link between trauma and Tetris Annie Rauwerda

flow Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dies at 87 Ferdinando Buscema

feels like a tuesday Feels like a Tuesday: research explains why days "feel" certain ways Annie Rauwerda

mindfulness When to practice mindlessness instead of mindfulness David Pescovitz

baptism piracy Try to listen to these soccer supporters chanting without hearing what the captions tell you to hear Rob Beschizza

Everything is Awesome What is awe and where can you get more of it? David Pescovitz

the internet in your brain Read an exclusive excerpt from "An Internet In Your Head: A New Paradigm For How The Brain Works " Thom Dunn

names Is your name spiky or round? Scientific study shows people judge you based on the sound of your name David Pescovitz

behavior People have a tendency to add stuff to make something better even when subtraction makes more sense David Pescovitz

cognitive biases Anti-masker hilariously digs his own hole after hearing about his own cognitive bias David Pescovitz

the internet in your brain A new neuroscience book argues that our brains aren't computers — they're the internet Thom Dunn