decorabilia

You are going to die. Don't be scared. (Unless you are Shakespeare's greatest waffler .) There are two basic options, vis-à-vi...

Though it gets flippant when discussing the philosophical implications, Jesse Bering's piece is a nice (nice? not the right word at all)...

Johnette Howard of ESPN has written a fascinating summary of the triumph and travails of Oscar Pistorius, the path-blazing runner who might...

Whining is more annoying than a buzz saw, says a recent study... In raw numbers, people made more mistakes per math problems completed when...

You aren't.  (And yet you are.) But you aren't.

The story first caught my attention in November . Now, in a humane and insightful piece, the NY Times magazine gives the incredible, philoso...

I. Earlier this year, I recommended Lawrence Rosenblum's See What I'm Saying , which explores the lesser-known aspects of sensatio...

On some level, it's obvious that happiness is genetic. Your ability to think and feel come from the brain you own (and that owns you), ...

Is a hungry judge a merciless judge? Jonathan Levav of Columbia Business School in New York and his colleagues analyzed 1,112 parole heari...

If V.S. Ramachandran has a new book out, you can bet your sweet occipital lobe I'm going to link to Colin McGinn's review. Why is ...

The fascinating case of "SM," the woman who feels no fear : She apparently hasn't felt fear as an adult, not even 15 years ag...

I spent a good thirty minutes imagining blogging about this article , and yet, sadly, the desire to blog about it only grew stronger. Well...

Thoughts, we imagine, belong to us. Even when we share them (speaking, writing, smiling, Facebook-liking) or when others can divine them (ES...

Longtime readers of the blog know that every now and then I feature the latest speculation about Toxoplasma gondii and its potential influe...

NOTE: This topic was chosen for Sept. / Oct. 2011. Current comments and thoughts are posted here . First in a series of previews of pot...

How does the mind construct its perception of the passage of time? In some cases, in a nearly tangible way: a condition called time-space s...

Add this to the list of things that make humans exceptional: we are exceptionally bad at probability. Worse than pigeons, in fact.

In case you doubted the inherent and insatiable sociality of the human species, or, at least, will cheer for anything: Improv Everywhere...

I'm not sure I'm really sold on the idea that augmenting one's own reality makes one less of a machine. And I'm not sure t...

A clever little experiment was recently designed to determine whether liars could be discovered through drawing. How it turned out: While ...