Theorists of consciousness generally focus on sensation – what it's like to, say, experience the color red. Yet what we call the stream of consciousness offers a much richer and more complex blend of ...

The calm the ocean brings us may be our blue heaven. But does it come from our “blue mind”? Perhaps more than anyone, San Diegans know the relaxing, zen-like feeling you can get at the seashore.

Could the Star of Bethlehem have been caused by a “great conjunction” of the bright planets Venus and Jupiter? On June 17, 2 B.C., the planets had come so close they would have almost appeared as one ...

How can science be used to explain group dynamics? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world. Answer ...

Why do some people love Impressionist paintings like Claude Monet’s “Water Lilies” (1906) while others can’t understand the hype? The question of aesthetic taste has stumped scholars for centuries.

If you’ve ever listened to a TED Talk or read a popular science book about human behavior, chances are good that you’ve heard fascinating insights about humanity that were based on the results of ...

Explaining how something as complex as consciousness can emerge from a grey, jelly-like lump of tissue in the head is arguably the greatest scientific challenge of our time. The brain is an ...

Food is something every single person on the planet deals with multiple times a day. We eat, we taste, we crave, we feel full. Seems simple enough, right? Except it really isn't. Beneath every bite ...

If asked, most people will claim they know how a toilet works. But when asked to explain, most simply can’t. Yale psychologists Leonid Rozenblit and Frank Keil called this the “illusion of explanatory ...

If you watch The Mindy Project, Mindy Kaling and Chris Messina’s People Magazine Awards win for Onscreen Couple of the Year was not a shock last Thursday night. The two actors have amazing (and ...