What exactly is wassailing — and why does it keep showing up in Christmas songs? From medieval drinking bowls to danceable ...

What is the neuropsychological basis for the brain's ever-changing contextualized goals? I explore this question from the perspective of the Affect Management Framework (AMF).

Across film (“Sinners,” “One Battle After Another”), theater (“Ragtime”) and TV (“The Lowdown”), four works suggested what ...

The ideas presented in George Lakoff and Srini Narayanan's The Neural Mind are fascinating, but the writing is far less ...

When I’m writing a metaphor, I always want to compare the natural world to something manmade, and vice versa. Diamonds on ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) safety has turned into a constant cat-and-mouse game. As developers add guardrails to block ...

Right now, the debate about consciousness often feels frozen between two entrenched positions. On one side sits computational ...

The wisdom of water runs deep in Chinese culture. In 2014, at a welcoming banquet during the 22nd APEC Economic Leaders' ...

This post contains spoilers from Season 2, Episode 6 of “Landman,” “Dark Night of the Soul,” which premiered Sunday, Dec. 21, ...

Thinking of “sciences” and “humanities” as unrelated modes of inquiry is not only shortsighted; it’s new to western ...

Smut is having a very public renaissance. Over the last few years it has been primarily force fed to us through dragons and ...