Apophenia is our tendency to find meaningful connections between unrelated things. Otherwise known as patternicity, it is a ...

How to avoid it and a simple definition of the gambler’s fallacy. Because what is the gambler’s fallacy, really?

Without a time machine, there is no way to know if this is true, but further, the line of thinking falls into a logical ...

It's always good (and frustratingly rare) to see the mainstream media get it right when it comes to pseudoscience in medicine. Too often the narrative is - scientists are baffled at this alternative ...

“The idea that you can go and compete at that level and win and not be ruthless, that’s a fallacy,” said Nicholas on the High Performance Podcast. “If you want to win at this level and be ...

For example, a neuron in the prefrontal cortex may only fire in response to a green traffic light when there is a car blocking the crosswalk. A unified understanding of how brain cells in the ...

The world certainly looks different through the eyes of a young child; enormous, intriguing, and somewhat overwhelming, and it has long been believed that what we encounter as children shapes our ...