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…
The useful frame is that milk is holding itself together rather than being a stable liquid. Almost everything below is either that arrangement breaking or somebody breaking it on purpose.…
The useful habit is to read a map as an argument rather than as a photograph. Somebody decided all of this, and knowing what they decided tells you what the…
The useful distinction is between materials that store energy in their shape and materials that store it in their disorder. A spring does the first and rubber does the second,…
There is a question that sounds unanswerable and turns out to be a geometry problem.
How far away is a star? You cannot go there. You cannot bounce anything off…