The human brain is perhaps the most complicated piece of biology to ever come into existence. It gives us the ability to imagine the future and create great works of art. And both of these things go hand in hand with our amazing ability to lie our asses off. Lies? Nope. Just misconceptions If you [...]

The wisdom of the crowd works on the principle that everyone is smarter than you. This doesn’t mean you’re the dumbest person in the room; just that averaging answers from a large group of individuals increases the accuracy of the answer over any one persons guess. But what do you do if you’re alone? How [...]

click image for larger version Ahh the good old days. The music, the sights, the sounds of a place that we can never journey back to. But why do these memories of times past feel so nostalgic? What makes these memories so different from remembering what I had for breakfast last Tuesday? Put on the [...]

Body language is the language of love – well, it’s the language of attraction anyway. With Valentine’s Day on the horizon, let’s flirt with a little of the science behind body language and the lures we use in our dance with the opposite sex. From across the room, the approach and the point of first [...]

The human brain has an awesome ability to generate and comprehend abstract concepts. It’s why the comic xkcd can take five crude lines and a circle and make us understand that this stick figure represents a person with passions and desires, while simultaneously being very funny. It’s this same abstract creative ability that occurs in [...]