The story of the Trojan horse is well known: the Greeks allegedly delivered to the city of Troy a massive wooden horse, which the Trojans mistook for a gift and pulled inside their city. At night,...
If you flipped a coin in the air and got five heads in a row, would you feel like tail is due? If so, congratulations! You just experienced the gambler鈥檚 fallacy.
Promising nuggets in early scientific research can quickly take hold of the public imagination and continue to spread well past their sell-by date, a lesson we are all learning the hard way during...
Thinking clearly is not just about recognizing the ways in which our brain misbehaves. Sometimes, it鈥檚 about realizing that the information we find in the world is incomplete. We all know that...
After leaving the Walter Reed Medical Center where he was treated for COVID-19, Trump told the American public, 鈥淲e have the best medicines in the world and they鈥檙e [sic] all happened very shortly....
Astrology is a funny thing. After having put up with decades of scientific probing, it has retreated to the one area that shields it from a rational critique: mysticism. It may surprise us to learn...
Our brain is not a computer; it is a squishy belief engine that can lead us astray in a myriad of ways. Learning to recognize how our brain misleads us can help us think more clearly and make...
Most people wear a mask as part of their pandemic-altered routine. That鈥檚 83% of Canadians and 67% of Americans by recent estimates. But there is a minority of people who don鈥檛, and their voices...
Are omega-3s the new vitamin C? In the past few years, these fats, primarily found in fish and flaxseeds, have acquired a reputation as veritable superheroes. Have arthritis? Try omega-3s! Don鈥檛...
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