Skeptophilia

Almost all of us implicitly trust our own memories. Experiment after experiment, however, has shown that this trust is misplaced.  Even if y...

Picture a place you know well.  Your house, your apartment, a park, a church, a school.  You can probably imagine it, remember what it's...

A paper published this week in the journal Nature: Scientific Reports  provided some interesting insights into how our memories of our own p...

A paper this week out of the University of Washington describes research suggesting that intelligence is positively correlated with the abi...

"I'm sorry, but I have no idea who you are." I can't tell you how many times I've had to utter that sentence.  Regular...

"The human brain is rife with all sorts of ways of getting it wrong." This quote is from a talk by eminent astrophysicist Neil deG...

Life with prosopagnosia is peculiar sometimes. Better known as "face blindness," it's a partial or complete inability to reco...

A little over a year ago, I decided to do something I've always wanted to do -- learn Japanese. I've had a fascination with Japan si...

About two months ago I signed up with Duolingo to study Japanese. I've been fascinated with Japan and the Japanese culture pretty much a...