2+ hour, 21+ min ago   (739+ words) Posted July 30, 2026 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley In 2024, Frank Muldowney won the lottery. Not the financial kind. He finally learned, nearly four decades after brain surgery at the age of 19, that he had Wernicke's aphasia. This condition affects language comprehension and…...

5+ hour, 29+ min ago   (215+ words) Posted July 30, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Critical thinking is often associated with the pre-frontal cortex, and creativity triggers sudden bursts of neural activity as well as focused attention in the brain's visual regions. This brain activity will be identifiable on…...

8+ hour, 49+ min ago   (58+ words) Updated July 30, 2026 | Reviewed by Lybi Ma Co-authored by Alana McCarthy, Rónan Fulton, and Michael Hogan. When AI use stays hidden When AI use is visible Alana McCarthy and Rónan Fulton are researchers working at the University of Galway. Michael Hogan,…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (341+ words) Posted July 29, 2026 | Reviewed by Jessica Schrader Twentieth-century personality psychology relied largely on trait measures such as the Five Factor Model: openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. These measures describe broad tendencies but do not capture how a person understands their…...

2+ day, 4+ hour ago   (419+ words) Posted July 28, 2026 | Reviewed by Gary Drevitch Most of us underestimate just how profoundly stories shape our lived experience. We tend to think of stories as things we encounter in novels, films or Netflix series. But the most powerful stories are…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (535+ words) Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Abigail Fagan Maybe you shouldn't throw away that old iPod. A recent Harvard Gazette article on the "tech-lash" caught my attention. It was built around an interview with the analyst Sara Watson where she talked about…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (389+ words) Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye You're mid-sentence in one language when a word from another shows up instead. Or you reach for a word in your first language and find it in your second one first. Or you notice…...

3+ day, 3+ hour ago   (481+ words) Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye Social connections are the lifeblood of what it means to be human. Relationships are an integral part—if not the integral part—of the human experience. We know this is true for our personal…...

3+ day, 7+ hour ago   (876+ words) Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Michelle Quirk Together, these choices begin to shape how we think, decide, and relate to one another. The central question is simple: Does AI strengthen our ability to act well, or gradually make important choices for…...

3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (389+ words) Posted July 27, 2026 | Reviewed by Devon Frye You're mid-sentence in one language when a word from another shows up instead. Or you reach for a word in your first language and find it in your second one first. Or you notice…...