On this episode, we talk about the benefits of nature. Our guest is Marc Berman, founder and director of the Environmental ...

We usually don't think much about it, but our brain is pretty amazing! This three-pound organ is in charge of everything ...

Accessing reading material in prisons is hard, but Freedom Reads co-founder Reginald Betts, a former inmate, went beyond ...

Share on Pinterest MIND diet lowers dementia risk, even if you start it later in life, a new study has found. Image credit: istetiana/Getty Images. As of 2021, about 57 million people around the ...

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Inside the mind of Joan Didion: The strangest and saddest book you will read all year Hers was a celebrated literary life, set in and around Hollywood, where she was the queen of witty, uber-cool ...

Summary In the book, ‘Unmyth’, artist Mithu Sen describes her art practice as a breaking or unmaking of everything codified ...

Mind blanking is a common, daily life phenomenon linked to changes in states of arousal, the researchers report, and tends to occur towards the end of long and demanding attention tasks like exams ...

In fact, evidence from electroencephalography (EEG) suggests that while the person remains awake during a mind blank, their brain might be going into what’s been called a “local sleep” state.

In “Changing My Mind,” a slender new book-length essay that has the misfortune to share a title with a 2009 collection by Zadie Smith, Julian Barnes, the novelist and all-around man of letters ...

The wry premise of his book is that he’s changed his mind about how we change our minds, evolving from a Keynesian faith in fact and reason to a framing inspired by the Dadaist Francis Picabia ...