Mind & BrainMay 7, 2013
Fantasia: A Composer s Experience of Synesthesia
Stories by Stephen L. Macknik
Stephen L. Macknik is a professor of opthalmology, neurology, and physiology and pharmacology at SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn, N.Y. Along with Susana Martinez-Conde and Sandra Blakeslee, he is author of the Prisma Prize-winning Sleights of Mind. Their forthcoming book, Champions of Illusion, will be published by Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Mind & BrainMay 2, 2013
Illusion of the Week: Delicious Portrait
Mind & BrainMay 1, 2013
Advertisers Exploit Time Illusions to Sell Products
Marketing illusions that make time fly
Mind & BrainApril 30, 2013
A new molecular brain pathway may cause obesity
Mind & BrainApril 23, 2013
I just pre-ordered my HAPIfork
Mind & BrainApril 23, 2013
The Storytelling of Science
Mind & BrainApril 17, 2013
Get Your Beauty (and Slimness) Sleep
Mind & BrainApril 16, 2013
The Louisville International Festival of Magic, Illusion and the Unusual
Mind & BrainApril 10, 2013
Fat Tuesday: Caloric restriction s days are numbered
Mind & BrainApril 6, 2013
Neuroscience in Fiction: Anathem , by Neal Stephenson
Mind & BrainApril 3, 2013
Fat Tuesday: Insidious Weight Bias
Mind & BrainApril 2, 2013
An interview with Neal Stephenson
Mind & BrainMarch 27, 2013
Fat Tuesday: Was I addicted to food?
Mind & BrainMarch 23, 2013
Neuroscience in Fiction: Nexus (Mankind Gets an Upgrade)
Mind & BrainMarch 19, 2013
Fat Tuesday: My Eyes Are Bigger Than My Stomach-Literally
Mind & BrainMarch 15, 2013
Penn & Teller's Cups-and-Balls Magic Trick
The SciencesMarch 1, 2013
Artists Play With Light and Shadows to Trick the Eye
Trompe l'oeil illusions challenge your perception
Mind & BrainJanuary 1, 2013
Mirages and Mind Benders the 10 Best Illusions of the Year
January 1, 2013
Visual Errors Twist and Tickle the Mind
Illusions that distort your perception
November 1, 2012
Illusions Reign Supreme on Halloween
Spooky illusions trick and treat your brain
Mind & BrainSeptember 1, 2012
Illusory Faces Peer Out of Unlikely Places
When seeing is believing
Mind & BrainJuly 1, 2012
Size Illusions Trick the Brain
Does size matter? To your brain, it doesn't
Mind & BrainMay 1, 2012
Aviator's Dilemma: Pilots Encounter Illusions Everywhere
Military aviators learn to second-guess their senses
Mind & BrainMarch 1, 2012
Urban Illusions
Street artists use the city as their canvas