Eye contact carries powerful social information. When you look directly at someone, your brain is taking in more than their ...

Ignorance might be bliss, but only if you are not bothered by half the planet thinking you are a moron. But the “fun” part of ignorance is often not actually knowing how little you know until that ...

Though "mansplaining" may sound like just a silly term for a when a man explains something, it's a distinct phenomenon, as anyone who's been on the receiving end of it will tell you. There's a ...

Let's say you're explaining something complicated, like the brain, to someone like me, whom you suspect may not have one. Try an analogy. The brain, you might say, is like a sponge (absorbs everything ...

Meaningfully distinguishing between explanation and justification is deemed essential in several branches of philosophy. Their differences have frequently been discussed in mathematics as well. But ...