One of the things your unconscious mind does for you - and it's a great gift - is it gives you extra courage to view the outer world and it does that by giving you an extra-special view of yourself.
Touch is our most highly developed sense when we are born, and it remains a fundamental mode of communication throughout a baby's first year and an important influence throughout a person's life.
They required three thousand Jews, the man said, and the line had apparently held 3,004.
1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark’s Jews.
We unfortunately seem to be unconsciously biased against those in society who come out on the bottom. We
People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.
Born, barred from teaching and worried about the ongoing harassment of his children, also immediately sought to leave Germany.
One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.
You want to succeed, double your failure rate. I
The invention of mummification. This was believed to be the key to a happy afterlife; certainly there were no disgruntled customers coming back to say otherwise.
It is not uncommon for experts in DNA analysis to testify at a criminal trial that a DNA sample taken from a crime scene matches that taken from a suspect. How certain are such matches? When DNA evide...
We all understand that genius doesn’t guarantee success, but it’s seductive to assume that success must come from genius.
Today we call our subspecies Homo sapiens sapiens, or Wise, Wise Man.
The Drunkard’s walk: how randomness rules our lives / Leonard Mlodinow.
People seemed to decide how much to eat based on box size as much as taste.
Heisenberg, who was attempting to hold German physics together, resented Schrödinger’s departure, since he was neither Jewish nor otherwise endangered.
As the psychologist Jonathan Haidt put it, there are two ways to get at the truth: the way of the scientist and the way of the lawyer.
Annoyed that although outlawed in Rome, astrology was nevertheless alive and well, Cicero noted that at Cannae in 216 B.C., Hannibal, leading about 50,000 Carthaginian and allied troops, crushed the m...
American people whether they agree that plants create the oxygen in the air, light travels faster than sound, or you cannot make radioactive milk safe by boiling it, you will get double-digit disagree...
Volatile green lion in the central salt of Venus and distill. This spirit is the green lion the blood of the green lion Venus, the Babylonian Dragon that kills everything with its poison, but conquere...