The Growing Problem of Noise The arc of modern life seems unavoidable, even if COVID shelter-in-place orders temporarily reduced decibel levels. This includes more cars, helicopters, buzzing drones, pinging devices, ringing hospital monitors, screaming TVs in waiting...
There are several widespread fallacies about productivity, according to neuroscientist Dean Burnett, author of the best-selling books , The Idiot Brain, and The Happy Brain as well as the well-liked Guardian Science blog “Brain Flapping.” Myth 1: Your job...
Much has been researched and written by researchers and other professionals (including me) about the “bad” or dark side of humanity. And the current chaos and conflict in our world would naturally lead many to believe in the darker side of humanity, leaving them to...
Our eyes allow us to perceive the world around us, but they are also a window into the mind. An emerging body of research suggests that how we move our eyes is affected by our personality. This conclusion was reached by John F. Rauthmann and Christian Seubert based on...
The paradoxical nature of enjoying nominally negative emotions such as sadness in the context of the arts and fiction has been widely acknowledged by philosophers from Aristotle to Schopenhauer. However, only the last decade has provided empirical evidence of this...
