Mind Hacks

All this week, Canada’s Globe and Mail has a fantastic special on mental health entitled Breakdown, relating the personal experiences of people who’ve experienced the extremes of thought and mood, and talking to some of the mental health professionals who work to assist people through times of mental turmoil. During the coming week, articles on […]

Anthropologist and explorer Wade Davis gave a couple of inspiring talks to the TED conference on how the beliefs and traditions of different cultures fundamentally alter not only views about the world, but the experience of reality itself. Both are fantastic, not only because Davis is a gripping speaker, but also because he highlights the […]

Pure Pedantry has picked up on a wonderful study that has found that incidences of road rage correlate with the number of bumper stickers a person has on their car. The abstract below suggests that bumper stickers are potentially an expression of territorial markers and that aggressive people are more likely to use more, but […]

News that a neuroimaging study has found that the brains of gay participants more closely resemble those of their straight, opposite sex counterparts is being widely reported, but one of the most interesting details is largely being ignored. The study was completed by neuroscientists Ivanka Savic and Per Lindstrom and had two parts. The first […]