Heroes have bigger amygdalae!
Sixty Minutes had an interesting story last night about researchers who used fMRI techniques to measure brain activity of people who...
Takete/ulumoo, bouba/kiki effect
Special thanks to Katie Zhang for sharing this Wikipedia link that traces the origin of this effect to Wolfgang Köhler in 1929. Here's...
Our lives might really "flash before our eyes" when we die!
It turns out that what happens in our brain the moment before we die activates the same brain regions as dreaming. This unusual discovery...
Londoner solves 20,000-year Ice Age drawings mystery
In chapter 9 we investigated the mysterious drawings in the caves of Altamira and Lascaux. Of course, our interest lies in the...