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. But beyond a certain limit, it becomes harder to get…

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. And as different of our identities come in and out of focus, or new ones are formed, they change how we think, feel, and…