The Internet Has Become the External Hard Drive for Our Memories
For millennia humans have relied on one another to recall the minutiae of our daily goings-on. Now we rely on “the cloud”—and it is changing how we perceive and remember the world around us
The Neuroscience of Everybody's Favorite Topic
Why do people spend so much time talking about themselves?
What Boston Showed about Human Nature
In the seconds after the explosions came an answer to an ancient question: Are we by nature good, or bad?
Winter Wakes Up Your Mind--and Warm Weather Makes it Harder to Think Straight
How temperature shapes difficult decisions
Scientists Probe Human Nature--and Discover We Are Good, After All
Recent studies find our first impulses are selfless
Men and Women Can't Be "Just Friends"
Researchers asked women and men "friends" what they really think—and got very different answers
What Internet Habits Say about Mental Health
Researchers find clues to depression in what people do online