The mind is so deeply attached to the self that it can be unsettling to consider how much thinking we don’t do ourselves.

In just three months, a functioning city that can cater for 10 million pilgrims a day springs up and then disappears a few ...

Using sparse materials and national symbols, she challenges how civic identity is constructed, remembered and imposed.

Keanu Reeves and Gard Hollinger discuss the cosmos, art, motorcycle designs, and the concept of time and space.

What transforms Watermark from merely a large bookstore to a day-long destination is its role as a cultural hub within ...

For this week’s newsletter, I’m switching from the usual counter-consensus macroeconomic analysis to an exploration of an unorthodox idea: the economics of the human mind. There is an emerging ...

Rorschach tests play with the human imagination and our mind's ability to impart meaning onto the world around us – but what does AI see in them? For more than a century, the Rorschach inkblot ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Hello readers. For all the talk of artificial intelligence, the most efficient computer on Earth remains the human brain. It can perform the same number of operations per second as the world’s ...

Researchers, led in part by University of Nevada, Reno’s Meet Zandawala, identify specific clock neurons that govern daily ...