How a Volatile Climate Shapes the Way People Think
New research finds that people living in climatically turbulent regions tend to make riskier decisions than those in relatively more stable environments.
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The Many Places and Faces of the Salton Sea
The Salton Sea was once known as California's Desert Riviera. Today it's struggling to stay alive, despite residents' best efforts at revitalization.
How to Improve Your Decision-Making
The key is to poll a crowd, then do what they least expect. By Nathan Collins (Photo: stressedtechy/Flickr)…
If You’re Happy and You Know It, Watch Your Back
Research suggests extremely happy people are seen as naive and ripe for exploitation. By Tom Jacobs (Photo: Arno…
The Nature of Human Violence
A new study looks at the question of how much our branch of the evolutionary tree contributes to…
How Did the First People Populate North America?
The usual story is that they traveled south through a gap between two glaciers. But a new study…
The Humanities Behind Bars
Learning to be free while sitting in a maximum-security prison. By Nancy Shepherdson The cells of the Illinois…
Russian Mammoth Pushes Back the Timeline for Humans in the Arctic
Evidence shows humans killed the mammoth deep in the Arctic—45,000 years ago.
Computers See Human Pain Better Than You
A new study reveals that expression recognition software performs way better than humans at discriminating between real and fake emotion.
Can Non-Violent Video Games Dampen Our Humanity?
That’s the tentative conclusion of two researchers, who report that frequent players of immersive games are apparently less sensitive to pain.