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Cramming before exams, rereading notes obsessively and highlighting entire textbooks may feel productive, but research suggests these popular study strategies often fail to deliver lasting learning.

My first camera was a small camcorder – about the size and shape of an iPod – that could upload videos straight to YouTube. For a pre-teen from the New York City suburbs in 2009, it felt like the ...

Awkwardness is ultimately a form of anxiety – often an uncomfortable, self-conscious feeling that the social order has been punctured in some small way. Yet there can be something quite funny about ...

The thought experiment known as Newcomb’s paradox pits participants against a supercomputer with near-perfect predictive ...

The way gambling is portrayed in the movies or in TV ads, it usually looks like a lot of fun. It’s exciting, and there’s often a social buzz. Maybe your own experiences with gambling started out this ...

Online spaces at the nexus of nutrition and wellbeing are teeming with their own form of junk food – quick fixes, sponsored ‘advice’ and pseudoscience conflated with the real thing. However, as the US ...

The early Chinese philosophers knew that a healthy mind comes from a harmonious community, not a matter for individuals alone Mental illness is often thought to be a matter of individual disorder.

We used an electric-shock dilemma to test the strength of people’s moral principles when faced with real-world complexities You enter a quiet laboratory room. Three people sit silently on chairs, ...

Though a tramp and a misfit, Chaplin’s world fit him like a glove. His life of contingency appealed to the émigré Benjamin ...

The great historian came of age at the end of British rule in India. Now 94, she continues to defy a regime determined to forget the pluralism and dissent of India’s past Her science revealed that ...

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