There is a phrase that gets used dismissively — that something is just a placebo — and it carries an assumption worth examining.
The assumption is that a placebo response…
Maya Linton
Most reported mental phenomena are difficult to study because they cannot be produced on demand, and this one is the extreme case.
It occurs unpredictably, lasts a few seconds, cannot…
There is a category of everyday experience so ordinary that nobody thinks to ask about it, and this is a good example.
Something itches. You scratch. It stops, briefly, and…
A quarry is a negative space that explains a positive one. The buildings, the walls, the roofs and the roads of an area all came from the ground somewhere in…
Source: Wikipedia
Decipherment requires a bilingual text — the same content in a script you can read and one you cannot — and the number of such texts is very small,…
The last day has a particular property: you now know the place, which you did not on any previous day, and you will not be back tomorrow. That combination is…