Category: Insight

How Did a 2000 Year Old Indian Philosophical Tradition Anticipate a 21st Century Neuroscientific Puzzle?

by Joseph Shieber: Suppose that you’re sitting at a pristine, white desk and are presented…

Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells

“Plants can measure and react to a far broader spectrum of light than we can…

How Cancer Hijacks the Nervous System to Grow and Spread

McKenzie Prillaman in Nature: Lightning bolts of lime green flashed chaotically across the computer screen, a…

War, AI and the New Global Arms Race

Lethal drones with facial recognition, armed robots, autonomous fighter jets: we’re at the dawn of…

New Theory Suggests Chatbots Can Understand Text

Anil Ananthaswamy in Quanta: A theory developed by Sanjeev Arora of Princeton University and Anirudh Goyal, a research…

9 Types of Intelligence

by Anna Siampani in the CEOWorld Magazine: Once upon a time intelligence was related to…

‘The Best Revenge is to Not Be Like Your Enemy’

by Paul Bloomfield: Marcus Aurelius wrote, “The best revenge is to not be like your…

The Value of Strong Workplace Ethics

Workplace ethics refers to the way employees in an organization govern themselves and their overall…

Deja Vu: What It Is and Why It Happens

Healthy people can experience this, but it can also be a symptom of a neurological…

Why Do We Have Fingerprints? Here’s What the Science Says

While impressive, it’s not just to unlock a smartphone or catch a bad guy.Here are…

13 Ways To Start Training Your Subconscious Mind To Get What You Want

By Brianna Wiest: Your brain is built to reinforce and regulate your life. Your subconscious…

The Invisible Personality Disorder

by Mike Bendzela: Given that it affects about 2.4% of the population, most of you…