Stories by laurex

Figuring Out Why Alzheimer's Disease Strikes More Women Than Men

Social psychologists impeded by ideological aversion to evolutionary psychology

Announcing the Winners of the 2018 MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

Fixed Point Exercises

Why our sense of time speeds up as we age – and how to slow it down

How Gaming Is Helping Brain-Computer Interface Evolution

The lazy person's perspective on programming: why you should code

The act of drawing has a “massive” benefit for memory compared with writing

Should Heroin Be Prescribed?

This HAL 9000-Inspired AI Simulation Kept Its Virtual Astronauts Alive

Neuroimaging links activity in the prefrontal cortex to psychopathic traits

US proposal for defining gender has no basis in science

Half of lonely people think no one will notice if something bad happens to them

Humans are actually better at remembering names than faces

Association of Exposure to Police Violence with Mental Health Symptoms

Researchers determine that reading stories increases empathy

How the Irresistible Lure of Curiosity Is Generated in the Brain

The Trouble with Trusting AI to Interpret Police Body-Cam Video

Goodheart's Law and a shared conceptual framework of measurement in science[pdf]

Key Substance for Brain Cell Regeneration Found