Neuroscience

Our Inkblots, Ourselves

Diagnostic picture-based tests are alluringly disruptive: a low cost tool that requires no imaging equipment or blood work and that offers...
Lola Pellegrino
Jan 15, 2019 4 min read

Busting the Neuromyths About How We Learn

This idea of different "learning styles" is widely believed–but there's no evidence that it's true.
Duncan Geere
Dec 20, 2016 7 min read

Brain Hacks for Supersonic Learning

"Neuroscience-based" methods promise to improve our cognitive abilities–but do they actually work?
Duncan Jefferies
Dec 13, 2016 9 min read

Clever Like a Fox

A look into how games and childhood play encourage the kind of adaptive, flexible thinking we need to navigate a complex...
Steven Johnson
Nov 2, 2016 11 min read

Would You Like to Be Uploaded to a Computer When You Die?

Rattling around inside a hard drive doesn't sound like an awful lot of fun–but then, neither does death.
Dan Sung
Oct 25, 2016 10 min read