Author: Mary

After a 40-year hiatus in scientific research on hallucinogenic drugs, scientists are investigating the effects of psilocybin, a psychoactive compound found in ...

I’d never heard of déjà vécu before, but according to this article from the New York Times Magazine, it’s an especially intense and/or recurring ver...

Hardly anyone wants to grow old (although it beats the only available alternative), but the results of a recent survey indicate that, contrary to popular belief...

To some extent, who we are is who we remember being. (I am crudely paraphrasing someone, I think John Locke.) A couple of researchers at Concordia University re...

My earliest memory goes back to when I was three years old and my parents brought my little sister home from the hospital (at least that’s the earliest on...

Edge has recently posted an essay by Daniel Gilbert, a researcher whose subject is happiness. Among other things, Gilbert talks about why the study of happiness...

I’m in the process of buying a house, which is why I’ve been blogging a little less frequently. This week the house was inspected and a major proble...

This essay from The Edge examines the prospects for the emergence of a third culture in which the natural sciences join the humanities in explaining why we feel...