This article was originally published on KFF Health News. With little pomp, California launched two apps at the start of the year offering free behavioral health... Read More
Psychology
In just a few short years, psychedelic-assisted therapy involving controlled substances like ketamine, MDMA, and psilocybin (the psychoactive compound found in “magic mushrooms”) have evolved... Read More
This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Like many of the researchers who study how people find their way from place to place, David Uttal... Read More
If you want your humanoid robot to realistically simulate facial expressions, it’s all about timing. And for the past five years, engineers at Columbia University’s... Read More
In the game Stardew Valley, you clear fields overgrown with weeds. You smash stones and chop down trees. You till the soil. You plant and... Read More
Although it can sound cliché, there’s a lot of truth in the old axiom “face your fears.” In fact, exposure therapy ostensibly puts that adage... Read More
Remember the old reality show competition stunt of getting contestants to eat live bugs on primetime television? Consuming “food” while it’s still alive spans numerous... Read More
This article was originally featured on The Conversation. Remember the sadness that came with the last time you failed miserably at something? Or the last... Read More
This article was originally featured on Knowable Magazine. Since the early years of this century, it has been commonplace for computerized analyses of athletic statistics... Read More
It’s relatively easy to trace a written linguistic history—there’s generally a lot of written documentation and records to study. Things get trickier, however, when attempting... Read More