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This Is Your Brain on Writing
The New York Times: A novelist scrawling away in a notebook in seclusion may not seem to have much in common with an NBA player doing a reverse layup on a basketball court before a
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Learning for Survival? Venom Overrides Other Snake Categories
We deal with the world around us by putting it into categories. We are constantly trying to understand the things we encounter by classifying them: Is this a food I really like, one that I
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How Music May Make Babies Team Players
The New York Times: Moving with a partner to the musical beat may make people more cooperative — even babies as young as 14 months. Researchers worked with 48 toddlers, each held by an assistant
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401(k) Contributors May Take Fewer Sick Days, Study Suggests
Employees who frequently call in sick can disrupt work flow and hamper productivity. It’s not easy to determine whether new hires will end up being chronic absentees. But a new study reveals one possible harbinger
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How to Become a Better Reader
Real Simple: Between urgent work e-mails, status updates, tweets, and magazines, you read all the time, right? But when was the last time you lost yourself in a book? The experience of becoming fully immersed
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The Truth About Free Will: New Answers to Humanity’s Biggest Riddle
Salon: Philosophers have debated for years whether we deliberately make each of the many decisions we make every day, or if our brain does it for us, on autopilot. Neuroscientists have shown, for example, that neurons
