Author: Mary

It’s easy to wonder to what degree humans are still subject to natural selection; from the perspective of someone living in an industrialized western nati...

Fans of the surreal, take heart. Recent research suggests that reading stories involving bizarre events that don’t necessarily make sense can temporarily ...

I went to an interesting talk today, one of Indiana University’s themester activities. Steven Gaulin of UC Santa Barbara spoke about work he has done with...

The World Science Festival, held in New York earlier this summer, has produced a couple of enjoyable videos that illustrate the power of music. Here, Bobby McFe...

So here I am back on the blog again. To jump back in with both feet, how about I write about climate change? Recently I ran across this press release about the ...

If you could translate your brain waves into music, what would it sound like? Would the sounds indicate anything meaningful to you? Some recent work published i...

It’s been awhile since I read it, but I seem to remember that Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina includes two strikingly different descriptions of journe...

The very idea of a mind wandering suggests that the wandering mind is off course, aimless, or somehow gone astray. However, it might be more accurate to suppose...

I’ve been thinking a lot about creativity lately, in particular about how it works and what it feels like to create something. A couple of recent news art...