A childhood spent under the spell of sleight-of-hand taught me skepticism, curiosity, and the habit of looking beneath appearances
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Psychology
Some people have extraordinary powers of mental time travel
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Rabidly consuming TV shows, movies, or books could make us more imaginative and able to cope with stress
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People took mushrooms, then studied famous paintings. Here’s what happened.
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Talking with philosopher Nathan Crick about using mass persuasion for good
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Your brain and the Anna Karenina effect
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There’s a German word for that feeling
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From Covid to climate change, understanding the role unevidenced conspiracy theories fulfil for individual and social identity in a shifting world can better help explain our ‘post-truth’ age
Centuries-old wisdom may ring true on food-fueled nightmares
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A 10-year-old study finally comes into the light
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