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The New Yorker displayed in an Upper East Side newsstand in New York on October 9th, 2012.

PS Picks: Rachel Aviv’s Latest Masterful Mental-Health Narrative in ‘The New Yorker’

PS Picks is a selection of the best things that the magazine's staff and contributors are reading, watching, or otherwise paying attention to in the worlds of art, politics, and culture.

Kate Wheeling

Artist Salvador Dali, pictured here in 1963.

News in Brief

The Thinking Process of the Visual Artist

Their use of language reveals the different ways painters, sculptors, and architects conceptualize space.

Tom Jacobs

News in Brief

Power Poses May Not Work After All

Back in 2010, we described a study in Psychological Science that found bodily positions traditionally associated with dominance…

Pacific Standard Staff

Social Justice

We Really Don’t Like Being Alone With Our Thoughts

New research finds having no distractions makes most of us uncomfortable.

Tom Jacobs

Environment

Automation Has Encouraged the Pilot’s Wandering Mind

With increasing automation, pilots may be thinking about the cold cuts they're going to buy at the deli instead of focusing on the flight.

Ryan Jacobs

Social Justice

A Measure of Consciousness

Despite much thought and ingenuity, neuroscience still struggles to define what consciousness is.

Roger Highfield

Social Justice

The Mind Readers: 3 Scientists Working to Save Those Trapped Between Life and Death

A story of mind reading, brain injury, and attempts to rescue the hundreds of thousands of patients suffering from disorders of consciousness.

Roger Highfield

Social Justice

The 30 Top Thinkers Under 30: The ‘Neuroscience and Hollywood’ Professor Who Wants to Erase Memories

For the month of April we're profiling the individuals who made our inaugural list of the 30 top thinkers under 30, the young men and women we predict will have a serious impact on the social, political, and economic issues we cover every day here at Pacific Standard.

Avital Andrews