Sooty

Recent research findings of Professor Joe Forgas from University of New South Wales states that: "Positive mood seems to promote creativity, flexibility, co-operation and reliance on mental shortcuts, negative moods trigger more attentive, careful thinking, paying greater attention to the external ...Read More

Annie Duke

An entertaining and insightful interview with Annie Duke into the world of poker and the psyche of poker players. Source: Big Think. Read More

float

A lucid article by Sharon Begley explaining why torture is not an effective way of retrieving information with a conclusion where the facts speak louder. In what is probably a futile effort to avert a flood of pro-torture comments and e-mails, ...Read More

Yayoi Kusama's Dots Obsession

The enveloping and violently red installation of Yayoi Kusama, Dots Obsession, immediately caught my eye to The Hayward Gallery's newly opened exhibition, Walking in My Mind: Adventure into the artist imagination. As the naming aptly conceived, this collection reflects the ...Read More

Memory

"The memories are not like flashlights that get progressively weaker as the battery runs low," Luck said. "They are more like a laptop computer that continues working at the same speed until it suddenly shuts down." This could be important ...Read More