Three years ago, it was hard to avoid all the Universal Basic Income (UBI) trials. First Finland announced that it would launch a UBI experiment, then Switzerland voted on (but rejected) ...
There’s no foolproof way to know if someone’s verbally telling lies, but scientists have developed a tool that seems remarkably accurate at judging written falsehoods. Using machine learn...
Parents are used to getting the blame for their children’s emotional defects. When it comes to empathy, it turns out they are partly responsible. Scientists studied the empathy of 46,861 ...
Researchers have made the breakthrough of couch potatoes’ dreams with a new drug that mimics some of the most important effects of exercise. Scientists from Deakin University in Melbourne...
Many people concerned about climate change assume that eventually, the growing weight of facts will persuade those who dismiss humans’ role in the problem to think again. Surely, the theo...
二十多年来，许多的咨询专栏、自助图书和放松的灵歌都在颂扬现在生活的美德。这些生活的心灵鸡汤在twitter上不断地发出，但却使我们错过了去欣赏真实的有纪念意义的时刻。 虽然这很有意义，但是提供的指导性也是有限的。毕竟就像没人会每天都再纽约的地铁里，只享受当下生活的快乐只能隐居。而神经学表明区分人类和其他物种的特征是人类的精神能使我们存活到未来，尽管这种说法很老旧。 加...
There are plenty of advice columns, self-help books, and loosely spiritual twenty-somethings devoted to extolling the virtues of living in the present. The advice is intended as an antido...
There will always be an endless list of chores to complete and work to do, and a culture of relentless productivity tells us to get to it right away and feel terribly guilty about any tim...
“沉迷工作”在有些地方长期以来可能都与勤奋敬业的工作精神联系在一起，但这可能会发展成为完全的精神成瘾。挪威一项近期发表的研究调查了16425名成年人，发现工作狂显现出精神疾病症状的几率明显高于一般人。
Workaholism, long-associated in some parts of the world with an industrious work ethic, can develop into a full-blown psychological addiction. Troublingly, a recently published study of 1...
Look at a photo of yourself as a teenager and, mistaken fashion choices aside, it’s likely you see traces of the same person with the same personality quirks as you are today. But whether...
We’re surrounded by messages of authenticity that seem, somehow, inauthentic. Instagram photos boast #nofilter and food companies promise to serve up "real" ingredients, whatever that mig...
We already know that artificial intelligence systems can work in law firms and beat the world champion at a game of Go. Now it turns out that AI can write some pretty good pop songs, too.
Everyone’s tax returns are open for inspection in Norway. This means you can see the income and financial history of colleagues, lovers, frenemies, enemies, and in-laws. But there’s a cat...
Does your morning routine consist of checking emails, browsing Facebook, downing coffee, heading to the train while Googling one last idea, checking notifications, more coffee, and going ...
