The idea that social media causes children mental health distress is plausible, but unfortunately it isn’t true. Trouble is, if you read wha...

Last week, the US senate had a hearing on the dangers of social media in preparation of a legislation to improve child safety online. In thi...

Should transgender teens transition? This rather personal question occupies a prominent place in the American culture war. One the one side ...

I recently learned there’s a new trend on social media: monk mode. It means cutting out distractions and going into self-isolation to become...

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Today I want to talk about a topic that is much, much more important than anything I have previously talked about. And that’s how cognitive ...

Lara, painting. She says it's a snake and a trash can. The American psyche is deeply traumatized by the finding that creativity scor...

Thinking, Fast and Slow By Daniel Kahneman Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 25, 2011) I am always on the lookout for ways to improve m...

Gloria at 2 months, crying. Two weeks after delivery, when the husband went back to work and my hemoglobin level had recovered enough to...

I am currently reading Daniel Kahneman’s book “Thinking, fast and slow,” which summarizes a truly amazing amount of studies. Among many othe...

Connect the dots. Click to enlarge. Source . Jonah Lehrer in his book “Imagine” introduced me to an interesting study by Beeman and Kou...

Michael Nielsen in his book “Reinventing Discovery” relates the following anecdote from the history of science. In the year 1610, Galileo d...

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking Susan Cain Crown (2012) People who got to know my from my blog are usu...

"Just ninetynine-ninetynine!" is what they tell me every time I fail to switch the radio station fast enough, is what they print ...