• Carlos Sainz and the Surprising Sadness of Second Place
• The “hot hand” in basketball – is it real, or just an illusion?
• Beyond money: towards an economy of well-being (Diener and Seligman, 2004)
• The evolution of gratitude
• PredPol – Predicting crime through data mining
• Is obesity actually a marker for an underlying condition?
• Richard Feynman on thinking processes.
• Alan Wallace on scientific dogmatism and materialism
• Daphne Bavelier gives a nice overview of the cognitive benefits of video games
• Opinions on free will by Steven Pinker, Michio Kaku, Sam Harris, Dan Dennett, Richard Dawkins and Lawrence Krauss
• The problem with the gaming/cognitive functioning link
• How to improve social anxiety by training your attention
• Psychic powers, the collective consciousness and publication bias (and Ben Goldacre)
• 6 ways that the influence of Facebook has changed our lives
• Is porn bad for you?
• Evolution has no goal
• Is food addictive?
• How to dance according to science (includes videos!)
• Can being an expert undermine your performance?
• Is it better to use pictures or words when learning languages?
• 3D Printing – A new form of life?
• Why debating doesn’t work (and how to fix it)
• Where is my mind? Is the materialistic model of reality incorrect?
• Playing Tetris reduces the effects of traumatic events
• Open listening: a way to improve spoken language comprehension
• Playing Medal of Honor improves cognitive abilities
• The cognitive benefits of playing video games
• The phonological loop and language comprehension
• Bilinguals perform better in the false belief task
• Resilience applied to food
• Piracetam – The nootropic with many uses
• Is minimalism a good thing?
• Why are some people more driven than others???
• Is marriage unnatural?? – the hypothesis
• Sex and Death
• Mindfulness helps people with substance use disorders
• Valentine’s day romance research round-up
• Even brief meditation improves cognitive function – Mindfulness vs. The Hobbit
• Awareness of the body is related to intuition – but can sometimes lead to the wrong decisions!
• Meditation is associated with changes in the physical structure of the brain
• Meditation versus relaxation
• Do you get back from meditation what you expect?
• Guided Meditations
• Meditation for beginners
• Six Success-Enhancing Behaviours that Good Moods Bring You
• How to manage your weaknesses
• How to identify your strengths. Part 1: Self-Reflection
• How to identify your strengths. Part 2: Questionnaires
• Strengths and Weaknesses
• What to do with your Strengths