Emma Young
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Only 5 senses? There’s actually 6 more, and here’s how they work
Aristotle’s desperately outdated five sense model may still be popular, but it vastly under-estimates our extraordinary human capacity for sensing ...
Dreaming while awake is possible and other strange facts about dreams
[W]e’ve examined five strange findings about dreaming from the psychology literature: … 3. People who no longer think can still ...
7 weird facts about how humans see the world
It might be the best-studied of all our senses, but surprises about the way our vision works just keep on ...
How blinking alters the way our brains perceive the passage of time
Every few seconds, each time you blink, your retinas are deprived of visual input for a period lasting anywhere between ...
Are atheists smarter than religious people?
Of course, there are examples of extremely intelligent individuals with strong religious convictions. But various studies have found that, on ...
Neuroscience, mindfullness and reslience in school kids
For scientists the concept of psychological resilience began in the 1970s with studies of children who did fine – or ...
