We are excited to host an interview about ‘The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain’, by Annie Murphy Paul. There are countless think pieces, apps and coaches offering advice on how to maximize your own cognitive abilities. …

Remember “the dress”? Was it blue and black or white and gold? For a brief moment in 2015, this was the question that divided the internet. A visual illusion of sorts, people saw the dress either one way or the other — and reacted with bafflement to others who perceived…

Scientists love to hate on the Myers-Briggs Personality Test, easily the most popular and well-known measure of personality. For good reasons. As explained in this excellent article by Laith Al-Shawaf, experts believe that the Myers-Briggs has dubious predictive ability and is grounded in debunked theory. To make matters worse, it’s…

Jay Van Bavel & Dominic Packer The world contains about 8 billion people, but many more identities. As Walt Whitman noted: each of us contains multitudes. …