Science

Our Brief Candle Time: A Conversation with Richard Dawkins

September 15, 2020

Richard Dawkins, best known for coining the “meme” and for his work on genetic mutation — the way in which genes seem to act in their own interest in the way they replicate, rather than serving to benefit the organism — didn’t really become a household name in the United States until 2006 with his bestseller

Brain-Based Learning: Changing The World One Mind At A Time

September 13, 2020

At the moment you draw your first breath as a newborn, you will already have most of your brain cells developed. We enter the world with no concept of political worldviews, of religion, or socioeconomic divisions, untouched and not yet molded by the constraints of our society.

“Human” Technology: The Technology of Life Itself

September 11, 2020

Throughout its history, humanity has participated in the creation, development, implementation, and use of many technologies. Each of these advances has taken its place — to prolong life, speed its pace, or even to destroy it. Most technologies were developed for the purpose of enhancing social well-being

The Motivated Workplace: Drive, Motivation, and the Future of Work

September 7, 2020

For as long as anyone reading this can remember, companies and organizations have operated with the assumption that the key to motivate employees, improve performance, and increase productivity is to reward the good, punish the bad. And if you want people to perform even

Music: It’s Got the Power To Move You

September 3, 2020

You know that feeling you get when your favorite party track starts playing on the radio? Your feet start tapping to the beat, your body begins swaying to the rhythm, and your head bops side to side; you suddenly realize that you’re on the verge of breaking into dance because somehow

Clarifying Creative Cognition

August 31, 2020

Creativity is an aspect of personality that is characterized by novel and appropriate ideas and processes. Linda Neiman, founder of Creativity at Work, a consulting, coaching and training alliance, relates that creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality

Sporting Genius: Inside the Minds of Elite Athletes

August 29, 2020

Sporting excellence excites and inspires. Whether it is Serena Williams dominating women’s tennis, year after year, Cristiano Ronaldo splitting the defense with a perfectly timed goal-assist, or LeBron James faking a drive, pulling up and shooting the “dagger,” moments of sporting

How Our Minds, Neurosexism, and Society Create the “Male” and “Female” Brain

August 26, 2020

Cordelia Fine’s book, “Delusions of Gender: How Our Minds, Society, and Neurosexism Create Difference,” just may upend everything you’ve come to believe about males, females, and hardwiring. What if men aren’t naturally good at math and fixing things, and women aren’t

What Causes People to Cheat?

August 25, 2020

When confronted with cheaters – whether in relationships, school or at work — people often shake their heads and say, “How did they hope to get away with it?” However, a slew of new research from Germany and the United States indicates that cheaters show different brain

Enhancing Experience Through the Phenomenological Method

August 23, 2020

Phenomenology is a philosophical study of the structures that underlie our conscious experience from a first-person point of view. In other words, it’s a multidisciplinary school of thought that attempts to understand how we experience things and what meaning things have in our

Road Map of the Mind: Understanding Functional MRI

August 22, 2020

What if I told you it was possible to read, or even hear, your thoughts? Mind reading has been the stuff of science fiction for some time — something that 50 years ago would have been thought impossible. Even today, there’s quite a bit of doubt, but what can be seen is the activity across brain regions each time we produce thoughts. While sending messages through brain waves

Stepping Up Your Creativity: Walking, Meditation, and the Creative Brain

August 21, 2020

“All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.” Friedrich Nietzsche included this seemingly exaggerated statement among the aphorisms he created for his book “Beyond Good and Evil,” where he predicts the future of philosophy. And he is certainly not the only genius to associate

Stuck On Yourself: Are Millennials Really More Individualistic?

August 19, 2020

Is narcissism really on the rise? Judging by the number of books written on the topic in recent years, it’s hard to resist the idea. Some psychologists say that millennials (those born between 1981 and 1996), influenced by cultural changes like the rise of the internet, are more

Speed-Dating: How the Brain Thin-Slices a Face

August 15, 2020

When considering whether or not to go out on a date with a guy, Samantha Tan, a sophomore at Indiana Wesleyan University, says she pays attention most to the eyes. “I feel like you can get a sense of their motives,” she says. And so goes the age-old saying, “The eyes are the window

Falling Out of Focus: What Science Says About ADHD

August 14, 2020

I typically wake up when my iPhone reads 8:42 a.m. A full minute later, I’m scanning my inbox on my phone, checking for new messages. I might get lucky and find a few worth responding to, and maybe I will write back right then and there, but, more likely, I’ll start a new draft of my reply

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