How We Form Our Routines
Whether it's a morning cup of coffee or a glass of warm milk before bed, we all have our habitual processions. The way they become engrained, though, varies from person to person.
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This Is Your Brain
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Love Can Make You Stronger
A new study links oxytocin, the hormone most commonly associated with social bonding, and the one that your body produces during an orgasm, with muscle regeneration.
Honor: The Cause of—and Solution to—All of Society’s Problems
Recent research on honor culture, associated with the American South and characterized by the need to retaliate against any perceived improper conduct, goes way beyond conventional situations involving disputes and aggression.
Are You Really as Happy as You Say You Are?
Researchers find a universal positivity bias in the way we talk, tweet, and write.
What Are the Benefits of Locking Yourself in a Tank and Floating in Room-Temperature Saltwater?
After three sessions in an isolation tank, the answer's still not quite clear.
Hams Without Ends and Cats Tied to Trees: How We Create Traditions With Dubious Origins
Does it really matter if the reason for why you give money to newlyweds is based on a skewed version of a story your parents once told you?
Newton’s Needle: On Scientific Self-Experimentation
It is all too easy to treat science as a platform that allows the observer to hover over the messiness of life, unobserved and untouched. But by remembering the role of the body in science, perhaps we humanize it as well.
In Praise of Our Short Attention Spans
Maybe there's a good reason why it seems like there's been a decline in our our ability to concentrate for a prolonged period of time.
The Limitless Drug: What If It Were Possible to Learn Any New Skill as If We Were Children?
You’ve heard to start studying foreign languages (and music and reading and memorization skills and more) at a young age, when your brain is better prepared to retain that information. New research suggests a drug typically used to combat epilepsy and bipolar disorder could help us retain that skill even as we age.