This Is Why Cartoons on Cereal Boxes Leer at Your Children
When a cartoon character gazes into our eyes from a cereal box, it increases our trust in the brand and our connection with it.
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Can Stigmas Help Fuel Disease Outbreaks?
In more primitive times, stigmatization used to be a helpful evolutionary adaptation. In a more civilized age, it could be an illness amplifier.
Does Expensive Parking Really Discourage City Driving?
A pioneer large-scale study suggests the common strategy to get people riding public transportation does, in fact, work.
The Media Is Only Telling You Half of the Climate Change Story
Network news outlets are tricking us into thinking there's nothing we can do about climate change.
Natural History Isn’t Dead–It Just Crawled Into a Microscope
Natural history collections are consolidating. Lessons are being dropped from biology courses. But amid the apparent carnage, microbiology is rising.
Why You Rarely Notice Major Movie Bloopers
The visual field accounts for the recent past in order to prevent us from feeling like we've gone mad.
The Upside of Personal Tragedy
After painful life experiences we're more likely to appreciate life's little delights.
Are Picture Books Warping How Kids Understand Animals?
Anthropomorphizing animals is a bad strategy for education, a new study suggests.
